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8 Questions about NextGen, Part 1
01.18.12 - Leighton Quon answers eight questions about what NASA is doing to help improve air transportation for all of us in the future.
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NASA Discovers New Double-Star Planet Systems
01.11.12 - The discovery of the Kepler-34 and Kepler-35 systems establishes that double-star worlds are not uncommon.
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NASA's Kepler Mission Finds Three Smallest Exoplanets
01.11.12 - Astronomers using data from NASA's Kepler mission have discovered the three smallest planets yet detected orbiting a star beyond our sun.
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NASA's Online Radio Station Rocks Smartphones
01.10.12 - Third Rock Radio just got mobile. Updates to the NASA App for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Android now feature NASA's online alternative rock station.
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New Star Cluster W3A Images Captured by SOFIA Observatory
1.10.12 - Researchers using NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have captured new images of a recently born cluster of massive stars named W3A.
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Kepler Mission Manager Update
01.10.12 - The project had an exciting close to 2011. A very successful Kepler Science Conference was held at NASA Ames and attracted more than 500 people.
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Teacher to Discuss How SOFIA Motivates Students
1.09.12 - Teacher who flew on NASA's Airborne Observatory available for interviews throughout the 2012 winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), Jan. 8-12 at the Austin Convention Center, Austin, Texas.
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NASA Debuts New Video Program on NASA TV and Web
1.6.12 - NASA launched a new high definition video program called "Destination Innovation" on Friday, Jan. 6 2012, that will air on NASA TV.
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Powerful Pixels: Mapping the "Apollo Zone"
12.28.11 - For NASA researchers, pixels are precious data that help us understand where we came from, where we've been, and where we're going.
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Kepler Discoveries Highlight NASA Ames News in 2011
12.21.11 - Highlighting a successful year of discovery, Kepler mission announced major findings that were among the top news stories in 2011 for NASA's Ames.
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NASA Discovers First Earth-size Planets
12.20.11 - NASA's Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system.
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NASA Ames Awards Services Contract
12.20.11 - NASA Ames has awarded a contract with a maximum value of $20 million to ASRC Research and Technology Solutions.
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'Smart SPHERES' Tested Successfully on Space Station
12.19.11 - In November, a free-flying robot on the International Space Station successfully gathered and delivered motion data via a new smartphone controller.
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SOFIA Peers in to the Heart of the Orion Nebula
12.19.11 - A new image from SOFIA shows a complex distribution of interstellar dust and stars in Orion nebula.
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NASA's Kepler Announcing Newly Confirmed Planets
12.19.11 - NASA will host a news teleconference at 1 p.m. EST, Tuesday, Dec. 20, announcing new discoveries by the Kepler mission.
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Kepler Mission Manager Update
12.19.2011 - Kepler spacecraft experienced a processor reset. The project team detected a software reboot during regular scheduled contact.
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NASA-Supported Student Team Wins iGEM Contest
12.13.11 - A team of nine undergraduate students from Brown and Stanford universities understood this potential and visited NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., last summer, to make the first contributions of synthetic biology to human space exploration and sustained colonization as members of a combined Brown-Stanford team.
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NASA Announces Robotics Student Competition Grants
12.08.11 - NASA is awarding grants totaling $1,386,500 for student teams in 37 states to participate in the FIRST Robotics Competition.
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NASA Hosts Holiday Fantasy for Sick Children
12.06.11 - Hangar N211 at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., will once again be transformed into the "North Pole" for the annual Cops Care Foundation Christmas Fantasy Flight for children with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses.
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NASA Gears Up for Study of Earth's Radiation Balance
12.05.11 - NASA scientists have completed tests in preparation for an airborne science campaign to study air entering the tropical tropopause.