WHAT: Fourth Public Hearing before President’s Commission on Implementation of U.S. Space Exploration Policy WHERE: Galileo Academy of Science and Technology 1150 Francisco Street San Francisco, 94109 WHEN: Thursday, April […]
Rae Ann Meyer Named Deputy Manager of In-space Propulsion Technology Projects Office at NASA MSFC
Rae Ann Meyer has been named deputy manager of the In-Space Propulsion Technology Projects Office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. The office, part of the Space […]
NASA Has Success With New Planet Hunting Tool
On Thursday April 15, at 1 p.m. EDT, astronomers will explain how they used a new technique to find an extrasolar, orbiting another star, planet during a listen-and-log-on news briefing. […]
Invisible Giants Exposed in New NASA Spitzer Image
Hidden behind a curtain of dusty darkness lurks one of the most violent pockets of star birth in our galaxy. Called DR21, this stellar nursery is so draped in cosmic […]
NASA Enables Scientists to Work Together While Miles Apart
For the first time, researchers thousands of miles away can study laboratory specimens by remotely operating NASA’s new “super magnifying glass.” The Remote Scanning Electron Microscopy (RSEM) technology was developed […]
NASA Extends Space Station Payload Integration Contract
NASA has awarded The Boeing Company of Houston a contract extension for payload integration work in support of the International Space Station. NASA plans to exercise the fiscal year 2005 […]
20th National Space Symposium best yet by all measures
The 20th National Space Symposium, held here March 29-April 1 at the Broadmoor Hotel, broke records and exceeded all expectations as the “best ever” gathering of the global space community. […]
NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Sees Stars as Numerous Grains of Sand in Nearby Galaxy
What appear as individual grains of sand on a beach in this image obtained with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope are actually myriads of stars embedded deep in the heart of […]
NASA Engineer Sits In Driver’s Seat of Space Shuttle Discovery
Ever since the third grade, Stephanie Stilson knew she would one-day work for NASA. Little did Stilson imagine she would be responsible for a Space Shuttle. “My father took me […]
NASA Return to Flight Task Group Announces Public Meeting
The next Stafford-Covey Return to Flight Task Group public meeting is 9 a.m. EDT, Friday April 16, in the Webster Civic Center, 311 Pennsylvania Avenue, Webster, Texas. A press conference […]