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Geothermal Field Covered Over, Parking to Return
04.16.13 - A mucky mud pit: there's really no other description for the wide, fenced-in parcel of land next to building 1212 at NASA's Langley Research Center.
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Students 'Blast Off' Into Week of the Young Child with Rep. Scott
In the Comets classroom at NASA Langley's Child Development Center (LCDC), two-year-olds sat in a circle on a rug with their hands in the laps, anxiously awaiting a special guest, Rep. Bobby Scott (D-...
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Know Your Earth 3.0: CALIPSO
04.15.13 - NASA's CALIPSO satellite collects information on the distribution and movement of clouds and particles, called aerosols, in Earth's atmosphere.
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Rep. Scott on STEM Education: "We've Got to Do Better"
04.15.13 - En route back to D.C. from NASA’s Langley Research Center, Rep. Scott (D-Va.) made a pit stop at the MathScience Innovation Center in Richmond, Va. during a NASA co-hosted workshop for middle and high school counselors.
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Technology Trends and NASA: To the Moon and Back
04.12.13 - On July 20, 1969, at least 600 million people watched as Neil Armstrong stepped off Eagle's footpad and onto the moon as he uttered his famous line, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
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Earth Month Lesson of the Day
04.11.13 - Celebrate Earth Month this year by engaging your students with 30 new Earth science lessons developed by NASA!
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A Man on Mars in Two Weeks? It's Possible
04.09.13 - Theoretical physicist Friedwardt Winterberg thinks it's possible to get to Mars in just a couple of weeks.
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Know Your Earth 3.0: SAGE III
04.04.13 - SAGE III on ISS Mission Operations Manager Brooke Thornton.
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NASA Langley Wins 2012 Commercial Invention of the Year
04.08.13 - All of the right elements came together for a team of seven NASA Langley researchers who will be presented the 2012 NASA Commercial Invention of the Year Award for "Methodology for the Effective Stabilization of Tin Oxide-Based Oxidation/Reduction Catalysts."
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NASA Langley: Where the Wild Things Are
04.05.13 - Even as the great minds at NASA Langley push technology to new and exciting realms, Mother Nature offers occasional reminders that she isn't one to be — you'll have to pardon the pun — outfoxed.
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Standing on the Shoulders of a Computer
03.29.13 - In 1967, Christine Darden was added to the pool of 'human computers' who wrote complex programs and tediously crunched numbers for engineers at NASA's Langley Research Center.
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Teaching Newton's Laws with Bowling and Mars
03.22.13 - On a big screen in one of the theaters at the Hampton CineBistro, a bowling ball rumbles down a lane and mows through a clutch of pins with a satisfying crack and clatter.
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NASA Knights Compete in Regional Science and Tech Event
The NASA Knights participated in the regional For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) Robotics Competition (FRC) in Raleigh, N.C., March 14-16. The event featured 55 teams fr...
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Orion LAS Team Visits New Orleans for Ogive Checkup
Members of the Orion Launch Abort System (LAS) team met at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) in New Orleans to review progress of the assimilation of the LAS Ogive Assembly, which will be flown o...
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Sequestration Likely to Impact NASA Langley by More Than $17 Million
At a Town Hall meeting in the Reid Conference Center on March 18, Center Director Lesa Roe updated the NASA Langley Research Center workforce with new details about the potential impacts of sequestrat...
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Technology to "Hear" Potential Leaks
03.11.13 - Space station's Ultrasonic Background Noise Test (UBNT) to detect air leaks by "listening" for high frequency sounds
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The Science of Taming the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
03.06.13 - For three months in 2010, following the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, thick oil spread out across the Gulf of Mexico as rippling surface waters transformed from blue to shades of orange and brown.
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Impacts of sequestration at NASA Langley TBD
Center Director Lesa Roe held a brief Town Hall meeting Monday, March 4, to address the potential impact of sequestration on NASA's Langley Research Center.
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Listening for the Boom and Rattle of Supersonic Flight
03.06.13 - NASA engineers test people's reactions to simulated sonic booms to help develop technologies that might allow supersonic passenger jets to fly over land.
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Grooming a New Generation of "Fixers"
03.05.13 - Simon Nance remembers his little boy asking him what it means to be an engineer. Before he could answer, the boy said, "Daddy, you’re a good fixer."