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NASA scientists, academic researchers and potential future space flight service providers will discuss new ways to conduct autonomous and human-tended space, life and Earth science experiments at the Human-Tended Suborbital Science Workshop, on Monday, Dec. 15, 2008 in San Francisco.Currently, only astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station are able to directly tend to science experiments in space. While today there are no opportunities to fly civilian scientists aboard...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA has increased the maximum ordering value of a contract with Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies (SGT) Inc., by $49.2 million to support the Applied Engineering and Technology Directorate at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO ) Under the Multidisciplinary Engineering and Technology Support services (METS) indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract, SGT Inc....
The U.S. space agency says scientists from the Ames Research Center and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory are co-winners of its 2007 Software of the Year award. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration award went to a computer program used to define safety margins for spacecraft re-entries and to a program that helps detect planets outside our solar system. Software engineers at NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., developed the Data-Parallel Line Relaxation software,...
To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS Contact: Janet Anderson, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala., +1-256-544-0034, janet.l.anderson@nasa.gov; or Nancy Neal-Jones, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., +1- 301-286-0039, nancy.n.jones@nasa.gov, both of NASA GREENBELT, Md., July 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Americas plans for opening the space frontier - including new human exploration of Earth's moon and future voyages into the solar system beyond - are featured in an interactive...
To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS Contact: Sonja Alexander of NASA Headquarters, Washington, +1- 202-358-1761, sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov; or Jenna Mills of NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, +1-281-244-0185, jenna.c.mills@nasa.gov HOUSTON, June 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "Mission BISD: All Systems Go" technology and science camp students are gearing up to chat and ask questions during a call to the International Space Station crew on Thursday, June 26, from 10:50 a.m. to 11:10 a.m. CDT. Students...
PALO ALTO, Calif., June 3 /PRNewswire/ -- The Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, and a national and international team of co-investigators have been selected by NASA to undertake a $750 thousand six-month study to design a new NASA Small Explorer Mission called the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS). In the recent announcement, NASA selected six missions for study. Two of them will eventually be chosen to move forward to...
WASHINGTON -- NASA is preparing to send a small spacecraft to the moon in 2011 to assess the lunar atmosphere and the nature of dust lofted above the surface.Called the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE), the mission will launch before the agency's moon exploration activities accelerate during the next decade. LADEE will gather detailed information about conditions near the surface and environmental influences on lunar dust. A thorough understanding of these influences...
