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  • International Space Station Expedition 30/31 flight engineer Don Pettit poses with a drinking water container, two syringes and a knitting needle at a workstation in the Harmony node. A video camera is set up to record his activities. A homemade Van de Graaff generator also is in view. (NASA)

    Astronaut Don Pettit Wins NASA Engineer of the Year

    03.01.13 - Don Pettit was awarded NASA Engineer of the Year by the National Society of Professional Engineers/Professional Engineers in Government.

  • Saturn and Venus

    Cassini Spies Bright Venus From Saturn Orbit

    03.04.13 - A distant world gleaming in sunlight, Earth's twin planet, Venus, shines like a bright beacon in images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn.

  • The Launch Abort System replica lifted in VAB

    Crews Rehearse LAS Stacking with Orion

    2.27.13 - Engineers, crane operators and technicians practiced the careful maneuvers that will be required to stack a Launch Abort System onto an Orion spacecraft.

  • Grayed-out continents frame tie-dyed oceans, with high-salt oceans showing yellow-red and fresher water in blue-purple

    NASA's Aquarius Sees Salty Shifts

    02.27.13 - Aquarius, NASA’s first satellite instrument specifically built to study the salt content of ocean surface waters, has shown some remarkable variations in its first year of data.

  • illustration of position and exposure data of the Vela pulsar from Fermi

    Fermi Produces a Study in Spirograph

    02.27.13 - The Vela pulsar traces out a loopy, hypnotic pattern reminiscent of art produced by a children's toy in this video created with data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.

  • A semi-span jet model is to be tested in NASA Langley's 14-by-22 Foot Subsonic Wind Tunnel.

    NASA Researchers Work to Turn Blue Skies Green

    02.27.13 - A big part of NASA's work to reduce the environmental impact of aircraft has moved into phase two.

  • Flight Engineers Chris Hadfield and Tom Marshburn

    Expedition 34 Update: Feb. 27, 2013

    02.27.13 - The station crew was busy with science and emergency training Wednesday as preps continued for the arrival of the SpaceX Dragon cargo vehicle.

    › ISS Update video  |  › Crew timelines
  • Bill Moore

    Delaware North Shares Visitor Complex Plan

    02.27.13 - Space shuttle Atlantis displayed inside its new home and the Angry Birds Space Encounter will soon greet visitors to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

  • staff with weather balloons

    Launching 101: First Weather Balloons, Then Rockets

    02.26.13 - Science writer Laura Betz shares her experiences assisting with weather balloons used to prepare for the recent launch of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission.

  • The NASA P-3B made low approaches at local airports, getting as low as 100 feet to make key air quality measurements. Shown here is the Bakersfield regional airport.

    Air Quality Research Campaign Concludes in California

    02.26.13 - The DISCOVER-AQ team completed their second destination in a five-year mission to study the air we breathe.

  • Commander Kevin Ford

    Expedition 34 Update: Feb. 26, 2013

    02.26.13 - The station crew was busy with robotics and science Tuesday as preps continued for the upcoming arrival of the SpaceX Dragon cargo vehicle.

    › ISS Update video  |  › Crew timelines
  • Susan Habenicht

    Habenicht Helping Build Space Center's Future Team

    02.26.13 - Susan Habenicht, of NASA Human Resources, is helping build the Kennedy Space Center team for the future.

  • Expedition 34 Commander Kevin Ford works with the Materials Science Laboratory's Solidification and Quenching Furnace, located in the Material Science Research Rack aboard the International Space Station. (NASA TV)

    Materials Science Research Rack Heats Up

    02.27.13 - Ever wonder how we develop new materials? Scientists at NASA do just that using the International Space Station Materials Science Research Rack.

  • Artist's concept of a black hole

    NASA's NuSTAR Helps Solve Riddle of Black Hole Spin

    02.27.13 - Two X-ray space observatories, NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton, have teamed up to measure definitively, for the first time, the spin rate of a black hole with a mass 2 million times that of our sun.

  • NASA Eyes Declining Vegetation in Eastern U.S.

    02.25.13 - NASA scientists report that warmer temperatures and changes in precipitation locally and regionally have altered the growth of large forest areas.

  • Curiosity's sample-processing and delivery tool

    Lab Instruments Inside Curiosity Eat Mars Rock Powder

    02.25.13 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has delivered sample portions of rock powder collected from the interior of a rock on Mars into laboratory instruments inside the rover.

  • Artist's concept of commercial spaceport

    Commercial Spaceflight - 60 Day Report, Issue 11

    02.25.13 - Eleventh issue, with articles on progress and milestone completed by the CCiCap partners.

    › Additional Documents and Previous Reports
  • Artist's Concept of NuSTAR

    NASA Hosts Media Telecon About Black Hole Studies

    02.25.13 - NASA will host a news teleconference at 10 a.m. PST (1 p.m. EST), Wednesday, Feb. 27, to announce black hole observations from its newest X-ray telescope, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton X-ray telescope.

  • Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield works with the Space Linear Acceleration Mass Measurement Device (SLAMMD) in the Columbus laboratory of the International Space Station. (NASA)

    ISS Research Update For The Week of Feb. 11, 2013

    02.25.13 - Expedition 34 is hard at work 200 plus miles above us! Catch this week's research highlights here.

  • iss034e051798 -- Flight Engineer Tom Marshburn

    Expedition 34 Update: Feb. 25, 2013

    02.25.13 - The station crew was busy with science experiments, maintenance work and training Monday after enjoying some time off over the weekend.

    › ISS Update video  |  › Crew timelines
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