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NASA Selects First Payloads For Upcoming Reduced-Gravity Flights

Fri, 2011-05-13 15:50
NASA has selected 16 payloads for flights on the commercial Zero-G parabolic aircraft and two suborbital reusable launch vehicles as part of the agency's Flight Opportunities Program.

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NASA Spacecraft's Data Reveal Magma Ocean Under Jupiter Moon

Thu, 2011-05-12 13:50
New data analysis from NASA's Galileo spacecraft reveals a subsurface ocean of molten or partially molten magma beneath the surface of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io.

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NASA Television To Cover Next Soyuz Departure, Arrival

Thu, 2011-05-12 11:50
NASA Television will cover the return of three International Space Station crew members and the launch of three new station residents in the coming weeks.

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NASA Announces News Briefing On Aquarius/Sac-D Mission

Thu, 2011-05-12 10:50
NASA will hold a news briefing on Tuesday, May 17, at 1 p.m. EDT, on the agency's next Earth-observing satellite mission, Aquarius/SAC-D, scheduled to launch on June 9.

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NASA'S Shuttle Atlantis Moves From Processing Hangar To Vab

Thu, 2011-05-12 08:50
Reporters are invited to cover space shuttle Atlantis' final planned move from its processing hangar to the Vehicle Assembly Building, on Tuesday, May 17, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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NASA Event To Showcase Sofia Science, Education Projects

Wed, 2011-05-11 14:50
The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) program will showcase its science and education efforts to journalists on June 8 at NASA's Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif.

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NASA'S Fermi Spots 'Superflares' In The Crab Nebula

Wed, 2011-05-11 14:50
The famous Crab Nebula supernova remnant has erupted in an enormous flare five times more powerful than any flare previously seen from the object. On April 12, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope first detected the outburst, which lasted six days.

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NASA Announces New STS-134 Prelaunch Events, Countdown Details

Tue, 2011-05-10 17:30
News conferences, events and operating hours for the news center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., are set for the final scheduled launch of space shuttle Endeavour.

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NASA Selects Classroom Teachers For SOFIA Science Flights

Tue, 2011-05-10 12:30
NASA has selected six teachers to work with scientists aboard the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) during research flights in May and June.

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NASA Announces 2011 Aeronautics Scholarship Recipients

Tue, 2011-05-10 12:30
NASA has selected 25 graduate and undergraduate students from across the country to receive aeronautics scholarships for the next school year.

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Student Experiments Will Fly Sky High In NASA Weather Balloon

Tue, 2011-05-10 10:30
Four high school experiments will launch Thursday, May 19, aboard a NASA helium weather balloon that will travel to the stratosphere, a near-space environment 19 to 20 miles above sea level.

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NASA Sets May 16 For Final Space Shuttle Endeavour Launch

Mon, 2011-05-09 14:30
NASA managers have set the liftoff of space shuttle Endeavour for 8:56 a.m. EDT on Monday, May 16.

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Space Shuttle Endeavour to Launch No Earlier Than May 16 News Conference Scheduled for May 9

Fri, 2011-05-06 16:10
NASA managers have retargeted space shuttle Endeavour's launch to no earlier than Monday, May 16.

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Six NASA Astronauts - Including D.C. Native - Available For Interviews

Fri, 2011-05-06 13:10
The astronauts who flew aboard space shuttle Discovery's last flight will visit NASA Headquarters in Washington on Tuesday, May 10.

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NASA Selects Investigations For Future Key Planetary Mission

Thu, 2011-05-05 16:10
NASA has selected three science investigations for a potential 2016 mission that would look at Mars' interior for the first time; study an extraterrestrial ocean on one of Saturn's moons; and study in unprecedented detail the surface of a comet's nucleus.

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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden's Statement About The 50th Anniversary Of U.S. Human Spaceflight

Thu, 2011-05-05 08:10
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden's Statement About The 50th Anniversary Of U.S. Human Spaceflight

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NASA TV To Air 2011 U.S. Astronaut Hall Of Fame Induction May 7

Wed, 2011-05-04 16:10
NASA Television will provide live coverage of the 2011 U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame induction ceremony at 3 p.m. EDT on Saturday, May 7.

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NASA Selects Summer Of Innovation Projects

Wed, 2011-05-04 14:10
NASA announced partnerships with nine organizations that will help the agency implement its 2011 Summer of Innovation (SoI) education program.

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NASA's Gravity Probe B Confirms Two Einstein Space-Time Theories

Wed, 2011-05-04 13:10
NASA's Gravity Probe B (GP-B) mission has confirmed two key predictions derived from Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, which the spacecraft was designed to test.

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