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STS-129: Stocking the Station
10.30.09 - The spare parts delivered to the International Space Station by Atlantis during the STS-129 mission will mean spare years on the station’s life once the space shuttle fleet is retired.
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College Team Wins Half-Million Dollar NASA Lunar Robot Prize
10.18.09 - Paul’s Robotics, a team led by college student, Paul Ventimiglia of Worcester Polytechnic Institute won the $500,000 first prize in the 2009 Regolith Excavation Challenge that concluded on October 18. The second place prize of $150,000 was won by Terra Engineering of Gardena, California and the $100,000 third place prize went to Team Braundo of Rancho Palos Verdes, California.
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Careers @ NASA: Student Resource Page
11.03.09 - Are your students interested in working for NASA? This resource page provides information about some of the careers NASA has to offer and the many opportunities available for students.
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Rollercoaster Ride
10.26.09 - Follow a team of college students through a week in NASA's Microgravity University.
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Mars Exploration
10.20.09 - Get the latest information on NASA spacecraft orbiting and roving the Red Planet.
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NASA Student Ambassadors
09.01.09 - The first inductees into the NASA Student Ambassadors Virtual Community share with other Generation Y students how they got to where they are.
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A Wise Choice
09.29.09 - Graduates of Spelman College's Women In Science and Engineering program are the doctors, engineers and professors of today.
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My Summer at NASA
09.11.09 - NASA aeronautics scholarship recipients spent the summer working at NASA and tell us what it was like.
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A New Spin
09.08.09 - A team of Colorado students try to improve the design of a Skylab-era experiment on a reduced-gravity flight with NASA.
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Blast Back to School
08.11.09 - Add a little space to your classroom this year with NASA educational resources.
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Exploration Analog Missions
09.01.09 - NASA teams are testing the equipment and technologies that will one day be used on the moon and Mars. Check out the new analogs Web site to stay connected with research teams in the field.
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Astronaut Nicole Stott's Blog →
08.25.09 - Follow along as Nicole Stott embarks on a four-month adventure aboard the International Space Station.
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Lunabotics Mining Competition
08.18.09 - NASA is challenging college students to design and build a lunar regolith excavator. Proposals are due Feb. 28, 2010. Teams will test their excavators in a head-to-head competition in May 2010.
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NASA's Marshall Center Honored for Support of HBCU's
08.18.09 - NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has been selected as a 2009 Top Supporter of Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority-Serving Institutions.
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Space Station Research Summary
08.04.09 - Learn more about the science being conducted on the International Space Station.
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My Moon →
07.28.09 - Do you want to engage with other people to explore the moon? Find events and opportunities to share your ideas and connect through social media.
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Teaching Geology to Apollo Astronauts →
07.21.09 - To prepare for their work on the moon, Apollo astronauts did many field exercises and built a common language with geologists.
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Free Spirit →
07.21.09 - The Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has become stuck in the Martian soil. Keep up with the latest efforts to free Spirit so it can continue to explore the Red Planet.
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Space Systems Engineering →
07.14.09 - Visit the Space Systems Engineering Web site to find materials designed for the three-credit-hour prerequisite to the senior-level capstone spacecraft/mission design course.
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Shuttle Commander Tweets, Takes Questions in Space
STS-127 Commander Mark Polansky invited his Twitter followers to submit questions that he answered from orbit during his mission.