11.1.2011
US space agency NASA has funded a study of "tractor beams" to gather samples for analysis in future missions.
11.1.2011
NASA is exploring ways to use tractor beams in future robotic probe missions.
11.2.2011
Long known in science fiction, tractor beams may be used by NASA probes to pull in tiny particles for scientific study. “optical tweezers,” “optical solenoids,” and “Bessel beams” are each under study by NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts.
10.27.2011
NASA remains one of the nation’s premiere research and development agencies, pursuing breakthrough technologies that will expand the frontiers of aeronautics and space.
10.20.2011
NASA Spinoffs listed as part of "7 Great Government Backed Inventions"
09.30.2011
In addition to NASA's missions in space that amaze the world, our work in aeronautics continues to spur innovation and jobs.
09.27.2011
Two years in the making, the Green Flight Challenge is essentially a test of who can design and build the most mind-bendingly efficient plane while meeting practical considerations about things such as noise.
09.13.2011
He called his NASA role "the greatest job" at the agency and the greatest job of his career.
09_07.2011
Aerogels were invented way back in 1930, but recently NASA’s Glen Research centre in Cleveland have devised new methods to produce new and improved type of aerogels that in every way are superior from the old fashioned aerogels.
09.06.2011
NASA recently funded an experimental project to put a laser-based communication system in Earth orbit.