Oceanopolis and the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) will be unveiling the Espace et OcÈan exhibition (Space and Oceans) in Brest, on France’s west coast, on 2 February 2001. At […]
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Imagine being able to land a jumbo jet without ever taking control of the stick. NASA scientists recently demonstrated the ability to control a 757 passenger jet simulation, using only […]
Enhanced Exercise Harness To Be Tested on NASA’s KC135
Contacts:A’ndrea Elyse Messer, (814) 865-9481 (o), aem1@psu.eduVicki Fong, (814) 865-9481 (o), vfong@psu.edu University Park, Pa. — This March, four Penn State undergraduate engineering students will risk their equilibrium and stomachs […]
Space Research Institute Selects New Chairman for Cape Canaveral Spaceport
The industry-led board of directors of the Florida Space Research Institute (FSRI) has selected Jerry Moyer of Bionetics Corp. to serve as the organization’s new chairman. As chairman, Mr. Moyer […]
Integral Systems Awarded Contract for the Replacement of the Geostationary Environmental Operational Satellite (GOES) Data Collection System (DCS) Aut
Integral Systems, Inc. announced today that it was awarded a new contract from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) System Acquisition Office (SAO) to develop a replacement for the […]
Text of Speech by House Science Committee Chair Boehlert to the Universities Research Association
It’s a pleasure to be with you this morning. This is actually my first speech as chairman of the House Science Committee, so I want to use this opportunity to […]
Space Foundation Names UTEP President to Board of Directors
Dr. Diana Natalicio, president of the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), is the latest member to be named to the Space Foundation’s Board of Directors, Foundation officials announced […]
New Era Begins as Mars Global Surveyor Completes Prime Mission
NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft, which has collected more information about the red planet than all previous missions combined, completes its primary science mission today and begins a new era […]
NEAR Mission Completes Mian Task, Now Will Go Where No Spacecraft Has Gone Before
NASA’s Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) Shoemaker spacecraft, the first to orbit an asteroid, has met all its scientific goals in its year of orbiting the asteroid Eros, and will […]
Texas A&M University physicists have devised a way to stop light
Contact: Keith Randall kr@univrel.tamu.edu 979-845-4644 Texas A&M University Texas A&M University physicists have devised a way to stop light, an accomplishment that could help develop super-fast computers, called quantum computers. […]