Researcher News Archive
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Diversity Day Honors Military Veterans
04.26.13 - As Del. Gordon Helsel (R-Va.) clung to consciousness on a hillside in Vietnam, the blood from a gunshot wound to his left arm seeping into the dirt, he nearly gave up.
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Aeronautics Budget Request a "Tremendous Victory"
04.26.13 - At a Town Meeting April 12 at NASA Langley's Reid Conference Center, Jaiwon Shin said the Fiscal Year 2014 (FY14) budget request of $565.7 million for NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate is a "tremendous victory for all of you."
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Lights, Camera, ACCESS
04.26.13 - At NASA's Langley hangar, Bruce Anderson, project scientist for the ACCESS (Alternative Fuel Effects on Contrails and Cruise Emissions) experiment, stood in between NASA's HU-25C airplane and a group of media visitors armed with cameras, notepads, and smartphones as he explained the recently completed series of flights.
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Know Your Earth 3.0: DISCOVER-AQ
04.24.13 - Deriving Information on Surface conditions from Column and Vertically Resolved Observations Relevant to Air Quality studies pollution where we live and breathe.
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Jim Van Laak: From Orange Juice Cans to the ISS
04.24.13 - From flying fighter jets for the United States Air Force during the Cold War to managing operations for the International Space Station (ISS), Jim Van Laak has had a long and storied career.
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Nothing Bugs These NASA Aeronautical Researchers
04.24.13 - A unique team is studying ways to prevent insect impact remains from sticking to an aircraft's wing in flight.
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Getting to an Asteroid Takes Technology, Community
04.23.13 - Imagine a house-sized asteroid floating along in deep space, minding its own business, when along comes a robotic spacecraft with large solar panels that unleashes a capturing mechanism to catch and carry the asteroid to a two-year journey into the Earth-Moon system.
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NASA Langley Celebrates Earth Day, Arbor Day
It's not every day that you walk into NASA Langley Research Center's cafeteria and see a fish tank. But on April 22, it served as one of many displays and exhibits during the center's Earth Day and Ar...
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Proposed FY14 Budget Lays Foundation for New Discoveries
04.22.13 - After the fiscal year 2014 (FY14) budget rollout at NASA Headquarters, Center Director Lesa Roe provided insight at the "Langley level," calling the President's proposed budget, "a positive start and a positive story."
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Aviation Academy Students "Make it Work"
04.18.13 - It's a mixture of academic rigor and technology skills that brought students from Denbigh High School’s Aviation Academy to NASA Langley on their spring break.
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How NASA Langley Stays Mostly Out of the 'Dumps'
04.17.13 - Waste treatment has come a long way since the creation of landfills or ‘dumps,’ which are mostly composed of non-biodegradable waste that takes a long time to decompose.
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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."