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Topic: NASA

  
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MOON MISSIONS   |  Comment

Detailed Pics Of Apollo Landing Sites: NASA 1, Conspiracy Theorists 0

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Jul 17, 2009 at 1:06 PM

Another Apollo celebration event just hit, and boy it's a biggy: NASA released in-orbit photos taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter that show the Apollo landing sites on the Moon, complete with amazing detail.The LRO is ...READ»

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ALL-TERRAIN   |  Comment

NASA's All-Terrain Robot Nearly Out-Climbs Spider-Man

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Feb 6, 2009 at 6:42 AM

NASA has revealed details on its latest prototype robot designed to rove around on Mars, and compared to the lumbering brutes that have been sent to the Red Planet so far, this new one is so spry and skilled at climbing that even ...READ»

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NASA   |  8 comments

NASA Coaxes Biofuel From Bags of Sewage

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue May 12, 2009 at 4:53 PM

There are lots of creative ways to produce biofuel from algae, but NASA's takes the cake. The space agency is growing biofuel in plastic bags of sewage floating in the sea. The Offshore Membrane Enclosures for Growing Algae (OMEGA) ...READ»

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ROCKET WOES   |  1 comment

Obama Team to Revise NASA Moon-Shot Program, May Delay Shuttle Launches

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu May 7, 2009 at 10:08 AM

NASA's plan to replace the Space Shuttle and return astronauts to the Moon and possibly Mars has been controversial right from the start. And now there's a strong hint that the Obama administration will directly intervene and ...READ»

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HEART HEALTH   |  1 comment

NASA Tech Worms Its Way Into Your Heart, Via Medtronic's Attain Ability

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed May 6, 2009 at 6:45 AM

Here's another poke in the eye for people who gripe that the space industry is a waste of money: Technology originally developed by NASA as an insulator for spacecraft has been incorporated into a new implantable medical device ...READ»

SUSTAINABILITY   |  3 comments

The Man on the Moon Goes Green in the Face


Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Feb 15, 2007 at 3:44 PM

NASA has proposed a livable lunar structure by 2028 where astronauts will be able to live on the moon for periods of six months at a time. In preparation for this trip, NASA has developed a guide, 181 Things to Do on the Moon, which ...READ»

NASA's Work with SpaceX Halted by Sour Grapes Protest
ARES   |  Comment

NASA's Work with SpaceX Halted by Sour Grapes Protest

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Jan 16, 2009 at 12:22 PM

When NASA selected two relatively small, new players in the space launcher game to provide cargo rocket supplies to the ISS during the gap between the Shuttle and Ares programs it represented something of a giant leap for the ...READ»

i heart clean air?
DAVID SHINDELL   |  2 comments

What? Clean Air Act Caused Half of Global Warming, Says NASA

BY Anya Kamenetz
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Apr 13, 2009 at 1:18 PM

In what must rank as the mother of all unintended consequences, and in a finding certain to have effects on international policy, NASA scientists have found that a decrease in airborne sulfates--dirty smokestack particles ...READ»

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COLLISION   |  Comment

First Satellite Fender-Bender Shows Why Space Needs a Clean-Up

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Feb 12, 2009 at 6:39 AM

Tuesday saw a strangely historic event occur--the first accidental collision in space of two orbiting satellites: a 1,200-pound communications satellite in full-working order, and a 1-ton aging Russian satellite that's been presumed ...READ»

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NASA   |  2 comments

The Tools You Need to Fix the Hubble Telescope

BY Cliff Kuang
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu May 14, 2009 at 3:31 PM

Today, astronauts aboard the space shuttle Atlantis spacewalked to the Hubble Telescope and kitted it with a new camera. Should everything go right--and so far, the mission has been a success--the Hubble should be good until ...READ»

moon footprint
MOON MISSION   |  Comment

Restored Apollo 11 Moonwalk Video Looks Good--Could Be Better [Updated]

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Jul 16, 2009 at 11:40 AM

NASA's getting into the swing of celebrating 40 years since Armstrong and Aldrin strolled on the Moon, and the latest party piece is some restored TV footage of those famous moments. It's all very nice, but we must do better next ...READ»

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GREEN BUILDING   |  Comment

NASA to Break Ground on Super-Green "Sustainability Base"

BY Cliff Kuang
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Aug 6, 2009 at 11:20 AM

The new office will set a high bar for intelligent, self-monitoring building design.READ»

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BIODIVERSITY   |  Comment

First Space Mission to Save the Earth (By Measuring CO2 in Atmosphere) Fouls Up

BY Anya Kamenetz
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Feb 23, 2009 at 9:38 PM

In the wee hours of the morning Tuesday, NASA attempted to launch an experimental mission to save the earth with the smallest rocket it currently has in use. The initial launch failed  when the module did not separate from the ...READ»

DECEMBER 21 2012   |  Comment

12.21.2012: How to cope with Apocalypse

BY VJ Misra
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Aug 27, 2009 at 10:04 PM

Ancient Mayans have prophesized December 21, 2012 to be the end of the world. How can we find out what is to come?READ»

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NASA   |  Comment

Will NASA Reinvent Its Lunar Rocket Program?

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Jul 1, 2009 at 8:21 AM

NASA's ambitious design to return humans to the lunar surface has been controversial right from the get-go. It calls for ditching the Space Shuttle entirely and abandoning nearly all of its technology except for the solid rocket ...READ»

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SINGULARITY UNIVERSITY   |  2 comments

Helping a Billion People in 10 Years: Singularity U's First Graduating Class

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Aug 28, 2009 at 8:45 AM

How would you tackle the problem of helping a billion people in ten years? That was the question posed to Singularity University's first graduating class, who formed four teams to tackle it. Their visions have just been unveiled, and ...READ»

moon dollars
MOON SHOT   |  Comment

NASA's Too Broke to Reach the Moon, What's Next for the Constellation Program?

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Sep 9, 2009 at 10:12 AM

NASA's ambitious Constellation human space exploration program has been under an Obama-steered spotlight to see how it's going. That investigation has come to a stunning conclusion: NASA can't get to the moon if things stay as they ...READ»

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NASA   |  Comment

NASA's Green Flight Challenge: The Ultimate Flying Car Competition

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Aug 5, 2009 at 2:15 PM

Instead of waiting for the inevitable aircraft X Prize, engineers can bring their sustainable plane ideas to NASA and the Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency Foundation's Green Flight Challenge. The contest, which comes with $1.5 ...READ»

LEADERSHIP   |  Comment

NASA's Mr. Team

BY Cheryl Dahle
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:07 AM

The man behind NASA's Academy of Program and Project Leadership.READ»

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DESIGN   |  Comment

NASA Invents a Shape-Shifting Helicopter Blade

BY Cliff Kuang
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Mar 12, 2009 at 9:59 AM

Even the best helicopters are loud, rickety gas guzzlers, and a big reason for that is the rotors themselves. As each blade cuts the air, it creates a turbulent wake; the next blade passes through that wake, causing it to ...READ»

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NASA   |  Comment

NASA Declares Successful Ares Launch 'Friggin' Fantastic!'

BY Clay Dillow
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Oct 28, 2009 at 8:51 AM

Delay followed delay followed delay yesterday, but this morning the NASA's new Ares I-X finally lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida with a bang. With massive smoke plume trailing, the rocket soared into the atmosphere at ...READ»

SALES + MARKETING   |  2 comments

Stacking Dollar Bills to the Moon


Relevancy Score: 100
Sat Feb 21, 2004 at 7:00 PM

In the past month-and-a-half, since NASA's Spirit rover touched down on the red plant, the space program's rover Web site has logged 6.5 billion hits. As CNET News.com recently noted, that's more visits than there are people on ...READ»

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SMARTPHONE APPS   |  Comment

NASA Rides the Moon-Bomb Wave and Releases an iPhone App

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Oct 23, 2009 at 4:57 PM

We were all pretty tired of NASA and its endless shuttle missions--until, of course, it bombed the moon. Now the agency is capitalizing on that good PR with a new iPhone app, perhaps hoping that some more public interest will help it ...READ»

HUMAN RESOURCES   |  18 comments

Jobs We Want

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed May 26, 2004 at 11:26 AM

This is an honest to gosh job opening: The advertisement for a GS-11/12/13 historian in the NASA History Office, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C., has now been posted. Please note this position closes on 6/01/04, and that all ...READ»

TECHNOLOGY + COMPUTERS   |  3 comments

Tech Monday: The flying car--Give it up already!


Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Aug 6, 2007 at 7:29 PM

Once again, we lurch towards our Jetsons-inspired future, this time, courtesy of NASA. The space agency selected The Cafe Foundation, a group of aircraft engineers, to host its Personal Air Vehicle Challenge, a $250,000 contest to ...READ»

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