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  • NASA Announces Space Station Science Challenge Winners

    01.18.13 - Students from two schools, one in Iowa and the other in New York, are the winners of the International Space Station (ISS) Science Challenge, NASA announced Friday.

  • NASA To Test Bigelow Expandable Module On Space Station

    01.16.13 - NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver announced Wednesday a newly planned addition to the International Space Station that will use the orbiting laboratory to test expandable space habitat technology.

  • Accreditation Open For NASA Landsat Data Continuity Mission Launch

    01.16.13 - Members of the media planning to cover the launch of NASA's Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California must apply for accreditation by Feb. 4.

  • NASA Participates in Presidential Inaugural Activities Jan. 18-21

    01.15.13 - NASA will participate in the inauguration of President Obama with several events, including an open house, a star party and a NASA Social; exhibits on the National Mall and at NASA Headquarters; and with two floats and marchers in the inaugural parade.

  • NASA Mars Rover Preparing to Drill Into First Martian Rock

    01.15.13 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is driving toward a flat rock with pale veins that may hold clues to a wet history on the Red Planet.

  • NASA Finds 2012 Sustained Long-Term Climate Warming Trend

    01.15.13 - NASA scientists say 2012 was the ninth warmest of any year since 1880, continuing a long-term trend of rising global temperatures. With the exception of 1988, the nine warmest years in the 132-year record all have occurred since 2000, with 2010 and 2005 ranking as the hottest years on record.

  • NASA Issues 2013 Call For Visionary Advanced Technology Concepts

    01.15.13 - NASA's Space Technology Program is looking for visionary advanced concepts. This year's annual call for NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts Program (NIAC) is seeking proposals for revolutionary concepts with the potential to transform future aerospace missions. Proposed concepts should enable new missions or significantly improve current approaches to achieve aerospace objectives.

  • NASA Awards Space Launch System Advanced Development Grants

    01.14.13 - NASA has awarded grants to nine universities for advanced development activities for the nation's next heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS).

  • CORRECTION: NASA, Space Station Partners Announce Future Crew Members

    01.14.13 - NASA and its international partners have named several future International Space Station expedition crews. They include NASA astronauts Steve Swanson, Reid Wiseman, Barry Wilmore and Terry Virts.

  • NASA, NOAA to Announce 2012 Global Temperature, Climate Conditions Jan. 15

    01.14.13 - U.S. government climate experts will announce new data on global temperature conditions in 2012 during a news teleconference at 2 p.m. EST Tuesday, Jan. 15. NASA and NOAA scientists will discuss the new results and the year's most significant weather and climate events.

  • NASA Hosts Jan. 15 Teleconference on Curiosity Rover Progress

    01.14.13 - NASA will host a media teleconference at 10 a.m. PST (1 p.m. EST) Tuesday, Jan. 15, to provide an update about the Curiosity rover's mission to Mars' Gale Crater.

  • NASA Administrator to Tour Seattle Museum of Flight Jan. 15

    01.14.13 - NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden will tour the Space Shuttle Trainer Crew Compartment in the Charles Simonyi Space Gallery at the Seattle Museum of Flight on Tuesday, Jan.15.

  • NASA Selects Scientific Computing and Technical Services Contract

    01.11.13 - NASA has selected Computer Science Corporation of Falls Church, Va., to support the Computational and Information Science Technology Office (CISTO) at the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

  • NASA Selects High-Performing Interns As Student Ambassadors

    01.11.13 - NASA has inducted 86 top-performing interns into the 2013 NASA Student Ambassadors Virtual Community, a vital component of the agency's ongoing effort to engage undergraduate and graduate students in science, engineering, mathematics and technology (STEM) research and interactive opportunities. This fifth group of student ambassadors, Cohort V, includes interns from 32 states and 70 different universities.

  • NASA, Bigelow Officials to Discuss Space Station Expandable Module

    01.11.13 - NASA has awarded a $17.8 million contract to Bigelow Aerospace to provide a new addition to the International Space Station.

  • NASA Sets TDRS-K/Atlas V Launch Events Coverage

    01.11.13 - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- News conferences, events and operating hours for the Press Site at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida are set for the launch of Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-K (TDRS-K) aboard an Atlas V rocket Tuesday, Jan. 29. The 40-minute launch window extends from 8:52 to 9:32 p.m. EST. Liftoff will occur from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

  • NASA'S Galex Reveals The Largest-Known Spiral Galaxy

    01.10.13 - The spectacular barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 has ranked among the biggest stellar systems for decades. Now a team of astronomers from the United States, Chile and Brazil has crowned it the largest-known spiral, based on archival data from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) mission.

  • Major NASA Air Pollution Study to Fly Over California

    01.10.13 - A multi-year NASA airborne science mission is on its way to California to help scientists better understand how to measure and forecast air quality globally from space.

  • NASA, MIT, DARPA Host Fourth Annual Student Robotic Challenge Jan. 11

    01.10.13 - NASA will join the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and high school student teams from the United States and abroad for the fourth annual Zero Robotics SPHERES Challenge Friday, Jan. 11.

  • NASA Prepares for Launch of Next Earth Observation Satellite

    01.10.13 - NASA's Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) is scheduled to launch Feb. 11 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. A joint NASA and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) mission, LDCM will add to the longest continuous data record of Earth's surface as viewed from space.