Make your plans now to attend Space Access Society’s ninth annual conference on the technology, politics, and business of radically cheaper access to space, Space Access ’01. There are four […]
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74,721 results found Sort by:A Conversation With George Pace, 2001 Mars Odyssey Project Manager
Pace manages JPL’s next interplanetary mission, the 2001 Mars Odyssey, shown here during launch preparations at the Kennedy Space Center. The spacecraft is scheduled to launch on April 7. As […]
Financial Management: Misstatements of NASA’s Statement of Budgetary Resources (30-MAR-01, GAO-01-438)
In June 2000, the House Committee on Science identified a significant discrepancy between an amount reported in the National Aeronautic and Space Administration’s (NASA) audited financial statements for fiscal year […]
The scientific case for human spaceflight
Forty years ago, on 12 April 1961, the era of human spaceflight dawned when Yuri Gagarin completed a single, 108 minute, orbit of the Earth on board Vostok 1. Exactly […]
NASA Government Invention of the Year Selected
The Optical Fiber Cable Chemical Stripping Fixture invented by John Kolasinski and Alexander Coleman, from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, has been selected as the winner of the […]
NASA Ames Research Center Powers Up World’s First 512-Processor SGI Origin 3000 Series Single System Image
Simulating the origins of life and accurately predicting hurricane paths are just two revolutionary applications that recently became a reality when NASA Ames Research Center, in Moffett Field, Calif., and […]
Purdue engineer goes back to class to put Einstein to the test
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — An engineering professor who sat in on a physics course to pursue his lifelong dream of understanding the general theory of relativity, not only reached that […]
The Largest Sunspot in Ten Years Blazes Away with Eruptions
A huge sunspot, thirteen-times larger than the surface area of the Earth and growing, has now rotated with the Sun to face our planet. The sunspot, which is the largest […]
New solid-state laser developed for Airborne Laser program
Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company today announced that its subcontractor, Raytheon Electronic Systems, has achieved a crucial milestone in the development of the Beam Control/Fire Control system for the U.S. […]
NASA Administrator Receives Premier Space Honor
NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin will be honored tonight with one of this country’s most prestigious space awards. The National Space Club will present Administrator Goldin with the Dr. Robert […]