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NASA EDGE Live at the Lunabotics Mining Competition

NASA EDGE takes you to Kennedy Space Center's Astronaut Hall of Fame, where university teams put their robots to the test in the 1st Annual Lunabotics Mining Competition.

Avionics Testing: More Than One 'Fiddle String'

"Having more than one string on a fiddle" means having multiple talents or uses -- a good description of NASA's avionics string testing.

NASA EDGE Live at the Orion Pad Abort 1 Flight Test

The NASA EDGE team go on location for the successful Orion Pad Abort 1 test at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., with behind-the-scenes footage, interviews, and live coverage of the launch.

Exploration Enterprise Workshop

05.26.10: NASA hosted an Exploration Enterprise workshop on May 25-26, with participants from industry, academia, and the U.S. government. Briefings and video are available.

Final Friction Stir Weld Completed on Orion Spacecraft

The Orion crew exploration vehicle took shape as the two halves of the crew module were fused together at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, La.

NASA Langley to Break Ground on Hydro Impact Basin

On June 8, NASA Langley will break ground on a $1.7 million Hydro Impact Basin that will serve to validate and certify that future space vehicles.

Splendors of Mare Smythii - Fresh Impact Craters

The floor of this small crater looks like a basket of impact-melt covered rocks, containing secrets about the age of apparently recent impacts and the processes that cause their fresh rays to fade.

NASA Invites Public to Take Virtual Walk on Moon

More than 37 years after humans last walked on the moon, planetary scientists are inviting members of the public to return to the lunar surface as "virtual astronauts."

Using 'Polka Dots' For Precision Measurements

NASA is developing a fuel tank dome for its next-generation launch vehicles.

NEEMO 14 Analog Mission: May 10-14, 2010

The NEEMO 14 mission began on May 10 and was completed at 9:00 am EST on May 24, as the crew left the Aquarius undersea habitat and safely returned to the surface.

Pad Abort 1 Test Successful

NASA's Pad Abort 1 flight test, a launch of the abort system designed for the Orion crew vehicle, lifted off at 9 a.m. EDT May 6 at the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range near Las Cruces, N.M.

Pad Abort 1 Test Successful

NASA successfully tested the pad abort system for the Launch Abort System developed for the Orion crew exploration vehicle at 9 a.m. EDT. The 97-second flight test is called the Pad Abort 1 test, or PA1.

Pad Abort 1’s Mobile Mission Control

Engineers will monitor and launch the Pad Abort 1 flight test from the mobile operations facility at the White Sands Missile Range (WSMR), N.M.

Experience 3D Virtuality With Robonaut

Move, pack, and unpack Robonaut in 3D Virtuality!

First U.S. Sample Returned from ISS

NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. hosted a media event on March 16, 2010 to commemorate the opening of the first sample processed on the International Space Station (ISS) Materials Science Research Rack (MSSR).

LRO Data Leads Researchers to Lost Russian Retroflector

UCSD researchers successfully pinpointed the location of a long lost light reflector on the lunar surface by bouncing laser signals from Earth to the Russian Lunokhod 1 retroreflector using LRO coordinates of the rover itself.

New Lunar Images Include Sites Visited, Photographed by Apollo 15 Crew

These LRO images show some of the basaltic rocks, lava rilles and other features visited by the Apollo 15 crew, as well as Dante Crater - where the evidence of the Moon's volcanic past may be exposed.

NE@Robonaut 2

NASA Home and City 2.0

Do you know how to find a trace of outer space in your home and city? This updated release is loaded with new features.

President Outlines Exploration Goals, Promise

The President's speech opened a conference on the new course for NASA and the future of the U.S. in human spaceflight.