NASA announced its intent to collaborate with the X PRIZE Foundation on two planned Centennial Challenges…
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WALT CUNNINGHAM
NASA honored former Apollo astronaut Walt Cunningham as an “Ambassador of Exploration.” The award provides special…
TOXIC SEAS
NASA exobiology researchers confirmed Earth’s oceans were once rich in sulfides that would prevent advanced life…
SAILPLANE SOARS LIKE A BIRD
With the graceful flight of hawks and eagles in mind, NASA aerospace engineer Michael Allen recently…
ENDEAVOUR COMES TO LIFE
Engineers cheered as electricity coursed through Space Shuttle Endeavour today for the first time in two…
FLASH HELPS SOLVE COSMIC MYSTERY
Scientists have solved the 35-year-old mystery of the origin of powerful, split-second flashes of light known…
Clearer View for Pilots
Working to make flying safer, more than a dozen NASA, airline, industry and government pilots are…
GRAVITY PROBE B MISSION
Almost 90 years after Albert Einstein first postulated his general theory of relativity, scientists have finished…
SHUTTLE FUEL TANK
Less than a month after being hit by Hurricane Katrina, NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New…