News Releases Latest Releases Media Alerts Press Release Archives Search Press Releases Media Resources Speeches Budgets & Plans Reports 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Browse Archive NASA Awards Johnson Safety and Mission Assurance Contract 06.10.13 - NASA has selected Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) of McLean, Va., to provide safety and mission assurance engineering support services for the agencys Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA Announces 2013 Space Technology Research Grants 06.10.13 - NASA has selected 65 graduate students as the 2013 class of Space Technology Research Fellows. NASA Selects New Suborbital Payloads, Total Tops 100 Experiments 06.07.13 - NASA has selected 21 space technology payloads for flights on commercial reusable launch vehicles, balloons, and a commercial parabolic aircraft. NASA Flights Target How Pollution, Storms and Climate Mix 06.06.13 - NASA aircraft will take to the skies over the southern United States this summer to investigate how air pollution and natural emissions, which are pushed high into the atmosphere by large storms, affect atmospheric composition and climate. Massachusetts Students Speak With Space Station Astronauts 06.06.13 - Expedition 36 crew members Chris Cassidy, Luca Parmitano, and Karen Nyberg will speak from the International Space Station to students at Douglas Public Schools in Massachusetts at 11:35 a.m. EDT, Monday, June 10. NASA to Host June 7 Mars Rover Opportunity Teleconference 06.06.13 - NASA will hold a media teleconference at 9 a.m. PDT (noon EDT) on Friday, June 7, to provide an update about the long-lived Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. The 10th anniversary of this rovers launch is next month. NASAs Orion Spacecraft Proves Sound Under Pressure 06.06.13 - After a month of being poked, prodded and pressurized in ways that mimicked the stresses of spaceflight, NASAs Orion crew module successfully passed its static loads tests on Wednesday. NASAs Spitzer Sees Milky Ways Blooming Countryside 06.05.13 - New views from NASAs Spitzer Space Telescope show blooming stars in our Milky Way galaxys more barren territories, far from its crowded core. NASA Chandra, Spitzer Study Suggests Black Holes Abundant Among The Earliest Stars 06.05.13 - By comparing infrared and X-ray background signals across the same stretch of sky, an international team of astronomers has discovered evidence of a significant number of black holes that accompanied the first stars in the universe. NASA Partners With the LEGO Group for Design and Build Contest 06.05.13 - NASA and the LEGO Group are partnering to inspire the next generation of aerospace engineers by offering a new design competition. The competition will spur students of all ages to use the toy bricks in building models of future airplanes and spacecraft. NASA Awards Aircraft Operations Support Contract 06.04.13 - NASA has selected L-3 Vertex Aerospace of Madison, Miss., to support the operations of all aircraft assigned to the agencys Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base and the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in nearby Palmdale, Calif. NASA Announces Major Airborne Pollution/ Climate Study June 6 06.04.13 - NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT, Thursday, June 6, to announce a new airborne science campaign over the southern United States. The campaign will investigate how air pollution and natural emissions affect climate and the atmosphere. NASA Prepares for Launch of Next Solar Satellite 06.04.13 - NASAs next scientific satellite, which is scheduled for launch June 26, will provide the most detailed look ever at the suns lower atmosphere or interface region. NASAs Hubble Maps 3-D Structure of Ejected Material Around Erupting Star 06.4.13 - A flash of light from a stellar outburst has provided a rare look at the 3-D structure of material ejected by an erupting nova. Astronomers used NASAs Hubble Space Telescope to observe the light emitted by the close double-star system T Pyxidis, or T Pyx, a recurring nova, during its latest outburst in April 2011. NASA to Host June 5 Teleconference on Curiosity Mars Rover 06.03.13 - NASA will hold a media teleconference at 11:30 a.m. PDT (2:30 p.m. EDT), Wednesday, June 5, to provide an update about the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission and activities of the Curiosity rover. NASA Exercises Contract Option on Engineering Support Contract 06.03.13 - NASAs Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., has exercised the second option of its Technology, Engineering, and Aerospace Mission Support (TEAMS) 2 contract with Analytical Mechanics Associates Inc. (AMA), also of Hampton, to continue providing engineering support to the center. NASAs Swift Produces Best Ultraviolet Maps of the Nearest Galaxies 06.03.13 - Astronomers at NASA and Pennsylvania State University have used NASAs Swift satellite to create the most detailed ultraviolet light surveys ever of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, the two closest major galaxies. NASAs Hubble Will Use Rare Stellar Alignment to Hunt For Planets 06.03.13 - NASAs Hubble Space Telescope will have two opportunities in the next few years to hunt for Earth-sized planets around the red dwarf Proxima Centauri. NASA TV Coverage Set for Space Station Cargo Ship Moves 05.31.13 - NASA Television will provide live coverage in June of the launch and docking of the European Space Agencys (ESA) fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle cargo craft (ATV-4) to the International Space Station and the departure of a Russian Progress resupply ship from the orbiting laboratory. NASA Commercial Crew Partner Boeing Completes New Spacecraft, Rocket Milestones 05.31.13 - The Boeing Company of Houston, a NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) partner, recently performed wind tunnel testing of its CST-100 spacecraft and integrated launch vehicle, the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket. The testing is part of NASAs Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) initiative, intended to make commercial human spaceflight services available for government and commercial customers.
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