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  • Lori Garver

    Chat With Deputy Administrator Lori Garver About NASA's Future

    06.28.11 - Garver will discuss the future of NASA's human spaceflight, science and aeronautics programs as the Agency prepares for the final space shuttle mission and opens a new chapter in human spaceflight, space exploration, science, and technology innovation.

  • NASA scientists hope to provide answers to some questions about lightning.

    NASA Chat: Striking Up a Conversation About Lightning

    06.23.11 - June is Lightning Safety Awareness Month. On Thursday, June 23, chat experts Dr. Richard Blakeslee and Dr. Monte Bateman answered your questions.
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  • Artist concept of matter swirling around a black hole

    NASA Chat: Giant Black Holes in the Early Universe

    06.15.11 - Astrophysicists Ezequiel Treister and Kevin Schawinski will be online at 3:00 p.m. EDT on June 15 to answer your questions about a new discovery about giant black holes in the early universe and about black holes in general.
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  • Timothy Livengood

    NES Video Chat: The Reason for the Seasons

    06.10.11 - NASA Explorer Schools was joined by Dr. Timothy Livengood for a special NASA Explorer Schools video chat, "The Reason for the Seasons," on June 21, 2011. A recording or transcript of the video chat will be posted at a later time.

  • Janet Petro

    NASA Chat: What’s it Like Being a Woman Working at NASA

    05.26.11 - You are invited to join Janet Petro, the Deputy Director of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, in an hour-long live chat on May 26, 2011, at 1:00 p.m. EDT. Petro will share her experience at NASA, in the U.S. military and in the private sector.
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  • Lightning strike during tornado super outbreak of April 2011

    NASA Chat: NASA Aids in Damage Assessment Following Alabama Tornadoes

    05.19.11 - Want to learn more about how NASA technology is aiding in tornado damage assessment? On May 19, NASA experts answered your questions.
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  • Fully functional, 1/6th scale model of the JWST mirror in optics testbed.

    NES Video Chat: The Big Bang, The Milky Way and More!

    05.17.11 - NES welcomed Nobel Prize winner Dr. John C. Mather for a video webchat. He spoke about the James Webb Space Telescope and how it will give us a look into the past to see how galaxies have formed since the Big Bang. A recording of this video webchat is now available.

  • Pamela Marcum

    NASA Video Chat: The Science Behind SOFIA

    05.12.11 - Join Pamela Marcum, project scientist for NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) mission, in an online video chat on May 12, at 1 p.m. EDT.

  • Ice

    NASA Chat: Live From the Top of the World on Earth Day

    04.22.11 - A NASA team of Arctic explorers is in Greenland right now on an airborne science mission to keep a careful eye on changes in the ice landscape on land and sea. On Earth Day, April 22, you can chat online with NASA scientists including Lora Koenig in Kangerlussuag, Greenland, about the Operation IceBridge mission.
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  • Video Chat: Building and Testing Solid Fuel Rocket Motors

    NES invites K-12 students to chat with NASA civil engineer Sam Ortega for a live video webchat on Tuesday April 19 at 2 p.m. EDT.

  • NASA engineer Ethan Baumann and the Gulfstream GIII testbed aircraft.

    NASA Chat: Quest for the Holy Grail of Laminar Flow

    03.30.11 - People who love flying are on a quest for aviation's holy grail – laminar flow. It's the absolutely uninterrupted flow of air over a wing and it's something you want but very hard to get. On Wed., March 30, NASA's Ethan Baumann talked about laminar flow.
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  • Collage of pictures of three women and the word Chat in a text bubble

    NES Video Chat: Women at NASA

    03.29.11 - The NES project invited all K-12 students to participate in a one-hour-long NASA career panel video webchat on March 29, 2011. This year's panelists were three outstanding women who have chosen to pursue careers in science and engineering. A transcript and/or video will be posted at a later time.

  • Hundreds of streams of data in different forms – numeric, binary, symbolic, text -- flow from an aircraft every second. Data mining tries to make some sense of it.

    NASA Chat: Data Mining Digs Up Clues to Safer Flights

    03.23.11 - If you can figure out how to dig through terabytes of flight data, data mining can yield really valuable information to make flying safer. On Mar. 23, NASA's Ashok Srivastava and Southwest Airlines' Jeff Hamlett talked about data mining in aviation.
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  • Mercury in color, seen by MESSENGER in 2008.

    NASA Chat: MESSENGER Prepares to Orbit Mercury

    03.16.11 - After more than a dozen laps through the inner solar system, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft will move into orbit around Mercury on Mar. 17, 2011. On Wednesday, Mar. 16, chat experts Jimmy Lee and Mike Galuska answered your questions.
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  • Collage of pictures of two women and a bubble with the word Chat

    NES Chat: Microbial Girls in a Microbial World

    02.17.11 - Being a scientist doesn't always mean spending your days in a lab. For NASA microbial ecologists, going to work might mean climbing aboard a research vessel, or collecting marine and soil samples in the Andes, Mexico, or even in Europe and Africa! Find out what it's like to hunt microbes around the globe with Angela Detweiler and Dr. Lee Bebout in a live chat Thursday, Feb. 17. At noon EST, chat with Bebout, or at 3 p.m. EST chat with Detweiler.