The opportunity to work at NASA while attending college helped astronaut Karen Nyberg connect what she was learning in school with real-world research.
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Students shared their visions for improving air transportation in a recent NASA contest.
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A NASA astrophysicist is encouraging students and the public to "look up."
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The International Year of Astronomy comes 400 years after Galileo's historic gaze into the night sky.
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Listen to the tale of visitors from the asteroid belt. Did they come from the solar system's second largest asteroid, and if so, why?
Find out how NASA is participating in the 2008 FIRST Robotics competition!
Scientists take their "chilling" stories of the poles on the road in a nationwide tour.
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Find out how the Cassini spacecraft will spend its newly announced two years of bonus time around Saturn.
Professional skateboarder Anthony Furlong knows that training is a key to success. Find out where astronauts planning for a trip to Mars train for the mission.
With this interactive feature, learn about the different station flight controllers and where they sit in the Mission Control Center.
View this video to find out more about the upcoming shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
NASA's Great Moonbuggy Race lets students work on the same challenges engineers are facing.
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More than 4 billion years old, the massive Vesta and Ceres asteroids could be windows into the "dawn" of the solar system.
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found evidence of rings around Saturn's second-largest moon, Rhea. This would be the first discovery ever of rings around a moon.
NASA engineer Sonya Hutchinson gives her time to inspire tomorrow's aerospace workforce.
There’s more to Antarctica's icy landscape than meets the eye.
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Submit a mission-related question to be answered by a NASA astronaut during the live webcast on March 10, 2008.
Discover Antarctica in greater detail than ever before by exploring this virtually cloudless, seamless and high-resolution satellite view of Antarctica.
Help Space Kid collect orbs to learn how the Columbus module will sail to the space station on the STS-122 space shuttle mission.
The STS-122 shuttle mission will deliver the Columbus laboratory to the space station.