The NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft has been commanded to begin collecting data from the surface of 433 Eros. NASA announced on Feb. 14 it was extending the NEAR mission for up […]
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Mimicking biological systems, composite material heals itself
Contact: James E. Kloeppel, Physical Sciences Editor kloeppel@uiuc.edu 217-244-1073 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL Inspired by biological systems in which damage triggers an autonomic healing response, researchers at […]
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NEAR Shoemaker’s Historic Landing on Eros Exceeds Science, Engineering Expectations
The NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft’s historic soft landing on asteroid 433 Eros Feb. 12 turned out to be a mission planner’s dream – providing NEAR team members with more scientific and […]
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Food For Space Flight
Photo: Astronaut Loren Shriver (STS46) demonstrates how objects act in microgravity while enjoying a snack of candy coated peanuts. Space Food History. The food that NASA’s early astronauts had to […]
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The Robert A. Heinlein Endowed Chair in Aerospace Engineering
The Aerospace Engineering Department at the United States Naval Academy invites applications for the Robert A. Heinlein Chair in Aerospace Engineering commencing as early as August 2001. Created to honor […]
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Yuri’s Night, The World Party for Space 12 April 2001
Yuri’s Night is a worldwide grassroots effort to celebrate humankind’s exploration of space. It is designed to reach out to a generation of people whose only glimpse of a Saturn […]
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Cato Institute to sponsor “Space: The Free-Market Frontier”
Conference website: http://www.cato.org/events/space/index.html Date: March 15 2001 Location: Cato Institute, corner of Massachusetts Avenue and 10th Street, Washington DC Americans are fascinated by outer space. Most would take a trip […]
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Conference: Instrumental Precision in Robotic Studies of the Martian Surface
Further info at: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/martiansurface2001/ May 14-16, 2001 – Houston, Texas Sponsored by Lunar and Planetary Institute NASA Mars Exploration Program Mars Exploration Payload Analysis Group (MEPAG) Curation and Analysis Planning […]
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JPL Navigators Guide NEAR to Historic Landing on Asteroid Eros
With fingers flying across calculator keypads as new guidance data flowed in, JPL space navigators yesterday used fast math, and lots of it, to help carefully nudge NASA’s NEAR Shoemaker […]
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Use of Support Service Contractors: NASA Office of Inspector General
The following assessment reports have been posted to the NASA Office of Inspector General web site: Agencywide Use of Support Service Contractors at NASA (G-00-016) and Use of Support Service […]
