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LITE at 15: Remembering the Mission That Paved the Way
09.23.09 - This month, researchers at NASA Langley are celebrating the 15th anniversary of LITE, a mission that took a chance by putting a valuable instrument in a new location - space.
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Exploring at Busch Gardens was a Thrill
09.21.09 - Abigail "Abba" Bang encircled the NASA exhibition tent. She was drawn to the spacesuit and to the pictures of the moon and beyond.
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Seeing a Star Can Be a Matter of Timing
09.19.09 - Langley engineer Mark Croom learns in London that sometimes the timing is just all wrong in his quest to meet Sir Patrick Moore.
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Challenge for This Cook Is a Piece of Cake
09.16.09 - After daughter Rene's first birthday cake was too sweet and too dry, Roger Dorko decided he could learn to do better. The result is tasted by NASA Langley personnel several times a year.
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Volunteer-Powered Positive Change for the Peninsula
09.11.09 - For the 2009 "Peninsula Day of Caring" approximately 200 of NASA Langley’s employees in more than 15 locations stretching across Hampton, Newport News, Williamsburg and Hayes, rolled up their sleeves to help the community.
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History Kicks Into Action
09.10.09 - Everything has a history. And often, that history can explain the present. This is the case for Cuong Nhu, a martial arts style practiced by the Langley Karate Club (LKC), with a history that dates back to Vietnam in 1965.
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Employees Prepare for the Worst and Train for the Best
09.09.09 - A video outlining life saving techniques played in a room filled with upper-bodied manikins and several NASA Langley employees.
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Only a Launch Would Have Made It Better
09.05.09 - At the last minute, a group of young NASA Langley workers scored a pass to watch STS-128 lift off from Kennedy Space Center. What could be a better reason for a road trip?
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The Final Four of the Center Team Awards
09.03.09 - At the fourth and final team awards ceremony of the summer, four teams were recognized for their contributions to NASA Langley and the agency.
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CLARREO Benefits from Langley Input, Center Legacy
09.02.09 - The appearance of Bruce Wielicki, Steve Sandford, Mike Gazarik and Dave Young before reporters Tuesday had its genesis in white papers that Wielicki, Marty Mlynczak and some of their peers authored for the National Research Academy years ago.
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Langley’s Global Facebook Friends
08.29.09 - Sooraj brightened the day recently by thanking me for friending him on the NASA Langley Facebook page. It was an "honor" and a "privilege" to be friended and converse with NASA, said Sooraj, whose page lists degrees in physics, math and electronics.
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Langley Softball Champs
08.28.09 - The NASA Langley Activities Association softball season has concluded. The winners of the double-elimination tournament were Here for Beer, "A" League; Swingers, "B" League; Brewers, "C" League.
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It All Began With the 19th Amendment
08.26.09 - On Aug. 26,1920, women earned the right to vote. On Aug. 26, 1971, the first Women's Equality Day was celebrated.
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Rewarding Not Faster or Higher, but Safer Flight
08.26.09 - NASA Langley's contribution to answering a challenge issued by then-Vice President Al Gore in 1997 was recognized Tuesday night, when the center's members of the Commercial Aviation Safety Team (CAST) were honored for their role in earning the 2008 Robert J. Collier Trophy.
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A Summer Student Gets His Reward at 5,500 Feet
08.22.09 - I have been working as a LARSS intern on an effort to integrate a set of sensors for ecological research onto the Langley Cessna 206. My reward was a flight aboard the C206 to ensure the instruments were working.
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Celebrating National Aviation Day the Wright Way
On Wednesday, August 19, a Family Fun Day was held at Wright Brothers National Memorial as the National Park Service celebrates National Aviation Day and Orville Wright’s 138th birthday. Orville Wrigh...
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Two NASA Langley Educators Make the Grade, Join First Teachers in Space
08.20.09 - A nonprofit organization, Teachers in Space (TIS), has chosen seven astronaut/teachers to go the distance to inspire their students.
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Teams With a Wide Range of Missions Are Cited
08.19.09 - Continuing a summer series of award presentations Wednesday, Lesa Roe, NASA Langley's center director, lauded eight teams in a morning ceremony and eight more in the afternoon for accomplishments during the past year.
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A Place to Solve Problems, to Create, to Be Innovative
08.15.09 - There's a seeming eccentricity that sometimes comes from the way people in the Navigation Center do things. But not in the things they do.
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Langley’s Crew Module and Launch Abort System Stacked on Ares I-X
08.14.09 - Like a candle on a cake, the crew module and launch abort system that Langley helped create now sit atop the Ares I-X flight-test launch vehicle.