Everyone is familiar with animals’ tails, but less well known is the fact that most planets have tails too – huge, magnetic tails filled with electrified gas rather than fur, […]
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Progress M-CO1 docks with the International Space Station
Following a two-day free flight in near-earth orbit to the International Space Station (ISS), proximity maneuvers, fly-about, stationkeeping and approach, the Russian logistics vehicle-module Progress M-CO1 successfully docked to the […]
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QuikTOMS Ozone Monitoring Instrument Prepared for Launch
NASA soon will launch its latest ozone-monitoring instrument, which will allow scientists to continue their long-term measurements of global ozone levels. The QUIKTOMS or Quick Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) […]
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NASA selects 325 innovative small business projects
NASA has selected 325 research proposals for negotiation of Phase I contract awards for its 2001 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Programs. The expected […]
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NASA technology to help commercial ventures “listen up” — and down
A 3-D audio processor developed for space shuttle mission controllers will soon find its way into virtual classrooms across the country. BreakAway Sound, an African American-owned and-operated business based in […]
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Free Lectures on Search for Extraterrestrial Life
If there is some form of life elsewhere in the universe, how will we recognize it? How will we find it? Astrobiologist Dr. Pamela Conrad of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, […]
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NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program 2001-1 Phase I Proposals Selected for Negotiation of Contracts
21st Century Technologies Inc. 8716 North Mopac Expressway Suite 310 Austin, TX 78759-8327 Darrin Taylor (512) 342-0010 01 H6.01-8883 ARC Distributed, Dynamic Space-Based Logistics Contingency Planning 3D Technology Laboratories 1243 […]
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NASA confirms north pole ozone hole trigger
NASA researchers using 22 years of satellite-derived data have confirmed a theory that the strength of “long waves,” bands of atmospheric energy that circle the earth, regulate the temperatures in […]
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Executive Summary: Readiness Issues Related to Research in the Biological and Physical Sciences on the International Space Station
“Construction delays and funding cuts jeopardize plans for microgravity research slated to begin aboard the International Space Station after 2006, says a new report from the National Academies’ Space Studies […]
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NOAA and NASA keeping close watch on ozone hole over Antarctica
Early data show that the ozone hole that develops each year over Antarctica has reached about the same magnitude as those of the past several years, according to scientists from […]
