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NASA Selects IBM for Next-Generation Supercomputer Applications
06.06.07 - MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. - On Wednesday, NASA and IBM, Armonk, N.Y., announced the agency has selected an IBM System p575+ supercomputer for evaluating next-generation technology to meet the agency's future supercomputing requirements. Supercomputers play a critical role in many NASA missions, including new space vehicle design, global climate studies and astrophysics research.
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Robotic and Space Technologies Center to Hold Open House
06.04.07 - MOFFETT FIELD, Calif.- A consortium of academic institutions in partnership with NASA, will open the doors of a new center designed to foster innovations in robotic and space technologies.
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Secretary of State to Test New Electric Car at NASA Ames
05.23.07 - MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer will visit Moffett Field on Thursday, May 24 for a first-hand look at one of Silicon Valley's new green technologies, including a ride in the Tesla Roadster, a new 100 percent electric, zero-emissions sports car.
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Arapaho School Joins the NASA Explorer Schools Family
05.22.07 - NASA has selected Arapaho School, Arapaho, Wyo., to join NASA's Explorer Schools (NES) Program, a three-year partnership that uses the agency's unique missions to inspire students in the fields of science, technology, engineering, mathematics and geography.
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NASA Rededicates Flying Observatory on Lindbergh Anniversary
05.21.07 - WACO, Texas - Monday, NASA dedicated a unique astronomy aircraft to pioneering aviator Charles Lindbergh on the 80th anniversary of his historic transatlantic flight. Erik Lindbergh, the pilot's grandson, joined NASA for the event May 21, in Waco, Texas.
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Edward Harris, Jr. Middle School Joins the NASA Explorer Schools Family
05.11.07 - Today, NASA has announced the selection of Edward Harris, Jr. Middle School, Elk Grove, Calif., to join NASA's Explorer Schools (NES) Program, a three-year partnership that uses NASA's unique missions to inspire students in the fields of science, technology, engineering, mathematics and geography.
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NASA Selects New Members of Astrobiology Institute
05.09.07 - NASA is awarding five-year grants to four research teams that will become new members of the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI).
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NASA Awards Heat Shield Material Contracts for Orion Spacecraft
05.04.07 - NASA has selected The Boeing Company, Huntington Beach, Calif., and Textron Systems, Wilmington, Mass., to develop alternate heat shield materials for the Orion crew exploration spacecraft.
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Pluto-bound New Horizons Provides New Look at Jupiter System
05.01.07 - The New Horizons spacecraft has provided new data on the Jupiter system, including new views of the giant planet's atmosphere, rings, moons and more.
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NASA Completes First Checkout Flight of Airborne Observatory
04.26.07 - WACO, Texas- NASA today successfully completed the first of several planned checkout test flights of the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) aircraft.
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Student Teams to Test Robotics Skills at Annual Tournament
04.16.07 - Twenty seven middle and high school teams will test their engineering and programming skills at the KISS Institute for Practical Robotics (KPIR) 2007 Northern California Botball Tournament on Saturday, April 21, 2007.
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NASA Predicts Non-Green Plants on Other Planets
04.11.07 - NASA scientists believe they have found a way to predict the color of plants on planets in other solar systems.
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NASA Ames to Host Human-Powered Vehicle Challenge
04.10.07 - Upright, prone or recumbent; young inventors and engineers are gathering at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., to test the next generation of vehicles powered only by the human body.
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NASA Ames to Host Celebration of Humankind's First Flight into Space
04.10.07 - NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., will host a major celebration of space exploration commemorating humankind's first flight into space by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. Yuri's Night is an international celebration of human space achievement designed to raise awareness and support for space exploration.
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NASA Finds Evidence for New Molecular Structure in Space
04.06.07 - NASA scientists have discovered evidence that a mysterious red glow, seen throughout the Milky Way and other galaxies but never on Earth, radiates from extremely fine dust clusters that cause the glow by combining molecular forces that oppose each other.
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NASA Kepler Scientists to Describe Hunt for Earth-size Planets
04.04.07 - During an upcoming meeting, scientists will explain how NASA's Kepler spacecraft will look for Earth-size planets orbiting distant stars.
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NASA Spaceward Bound Scientists and Teachers Study the Mojave
03.23.07 - NASA scientists and teachers will step back in time as they investigate the Mojave Desert to study the unique geologic formations and the supremely adapted microbes that call it home.
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NASA Studies Life's Limits in China's Extreme Deserts
03.22.07 - Searching for clues to the potential for life on Mars, NASA scientists recently explored microbial communities in some of the world’s oldest, driest and most remote deserts, in China’s northwest region, and found evidence suggesting that conditions there may be similar to those in certain regions of Mars.
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NASA Scientists and Teachers to Study Mars in the Mojave Desert
03.21.07 - A passionate teacher can make any subject come alive for students, and NASA is helping to fuel that passion. On March 25-30, 2007, NASA's Spaceward Bound project will take a team of NASA scientists and 40 teachers from throughout the country to study the unique geologic formations of California's Mojave Desert.
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NASA Studies How Airborne Particles Affect Climate Change
03.14.07 - A recent NASA study links natural and human-made aerosol particles to how much Earth warms or cools.