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NASA Ames Welcomes the Return of the Sally Ride Science Festival
05.17.06 - The Sally Ride Science Festival at NASA Ames Research Center has been postponed due to the threat of rain and possible thunderstorms forecast for the San Francisco Bay Area.
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NASA Selects Hawaiian Elementary School for Explorer School Team
05.16.06 - NASA recently welcomed 26 new NASA Explorer Schools including an Pearl City Elementary School in Hawaii to its program designed to inspire students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
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NASA Internet Software Shows Planets in 3-D Color
05.15.06 - An updated NASA World Wind computer program enables Web surfers virtually to fly through huge Mars canyons and visit Venus and Jupiter in 3-D color.
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NASA Ames Appoints New Deputy Center Director
05.12.06 - NASA Ames Research Center Director Simon "Pete" Worden announced today that he has named Marvin "Chris" Christensen to serve as his deputy director.
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NASA Ames Tests Heat Shield Samples for Spaceship Capsule
05.11.06 - Initial tests of materials that could be used in the heat shield of the Crew Exploration Vehicle were recently completed at NASA Ames.
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NASA Testing Prototype Software for Future Spaceflight
04.27.06 - Software that astronauts could use during spaceflight and in future moon habitats is being tested by NASA in a Utah desert April 23 to May 7, 2006.
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Top Robotics Team Battle for International Championship
04.25.06 - After 33 grueling regional tournaments, the top high school robotics teams from the United States and abroad will battle for pride and glory and NASA will be there to broadcast the excitement.
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NASA to Test Prototype Software for Future Space Trips
04.24.06 - From April 23 to May 7, NASA is conducting tests of prototype software that astronauts could use during future spaceflight.
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NASA Names Worden New Ames Center Director
04.21.06 - NASA Administrator Michael Griffin announced Friday that Simon P. "Pete" Worden will be the next director of NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif. Worden, a retired U.S. Air Force brigadier general, is a research professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona, Tucson.
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NASA Scientists Study Health Benefits of Exercise on Astronauts
04.19.06 - NASA has teamed up with two universities to study ways to reduce the adverse effects of space travel has on astronauts' physical heath.
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Student Robotic Engineers Gather at NASA-Sponsored Tournament
04.17.06 - Future engineers and computer scientists will demonstrate their robotics skills during the NASA-sponsored ninth annual northern California Botball Robotics Tournament.
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New NASA Ames Spacecraft to Look for Ice at Lunar South Pole
04.10.06 - NASA today announced that a small, 'secondary payload' spacecraft, to be developed by a team at NASA Ames Research Center, has been selected to travel to the moon to look for precious water ice at the lunar south pole in October 2008.
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NASA Astronaut Featured at Space Shuttle Anniversary Celebration
03.30.06 - Astronaut Stephen Robinson, a native of Sacramento, will be the featured speaker at NASA Ames Research Center on Wednesday, April 12, 2006, highlighting a week-long celebration of the 25th anniversary of STS-1, the space shuttle's first flight.
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Stardust Sprinkled Over NASA Astrobiology Conference
03.29.06 - NASA's Stardust mission has energized the scientific community with new insights into comets and the formation of the solar system.
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The Moon Gets Spotlight at Astrobiology Conference
03.28.06 - Scientists at the NASA Astrobiology Science Conference will discuss the moon's role in shaping life on Earth and what secrets it can tell us about the formation of the solar system.
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NASA Conference to Discuss Life in the Universe
03.21.06 - NASA is bringing together leading experts in the field of astrobiology to discuss the origins, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe.
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NASA Space Cookies Join the Girl Scout Lineup
03.16.06 - Thin Mints, Carmel DeLites and now… 'Space Cookies.'
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High School Robotics Engineers Battle in Silicon Valley Regional
03.13.06 - Forty teams from northern California, Hawaii and Montana will compete for points and pride at the FIRST robotics Silicon Valley Regional on March 16-18, 2006.
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NASA Previews Robotics Engineers of the Future
03.10.06 - NASA will be cheering as thousands of students test their engineering skills for robotics supremacy.
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NASA Awards Supercomputing Time for Advanced Research
03.03.06 - NASA has awarded approximately 4.65 million hours of supercomputing time to researchers.