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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Wed, 2011-05-11 12:50
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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.
4 Vote(s)
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.
4 Vote(s)
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.
3 Vote(s)
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.
3 Vote(s)
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.
5 Vote(s)
Fri, 2011-05-06 16:10
NASA managers have retargeted space shuttle Endeavour's launch to no earlier than Monday, May 16.
5 Vote(s)
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.
5 Vote(s)
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.
5 Vote(s)
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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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.
7 Vote(s)
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.
7 Vote(s)
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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