NASA NAMES NEW CHIEF OF STAFF

NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe announced today John Schumacher would be appointed the agency Chief of Staff.…

NASA OPENS APPLICATIONS FOR NEW ASTRONAUT CLASS

NASA is accepting applications for mission specialist and pilot astronaut candidates to join the 2004 Astronaut…

COASTAL CITIES TURN UP THE HEAT ON RAINFALL

The old song, asking rain to “go away” and “come again another day,” may get even…

FIRST-TIME-EVER SNAPSHOT RELEASED OF MOTHER EARTH FROM MARS

Have you ever wondered what you would see if you were on Mars looking at the…

FROZEN LIGHT RESEARCH HOLDS PROMISE

NASA-funded research at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., that literally stops light in its tracks, may someday…

NEW VIEWS OF BIGGEST CONSTRUCTION SITES IN UNIVERSE

Images made by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have revealed two distant cosmic construction sites buzzing with…

NASA SELECTS IN-SPACE PROPULSION INNOVATIONS FOR RESEARCH

NASA has selected 15 industry, government and academic organizations to pursue 22 innovative propulsion technology research…

SCIENTISTS DUST OFF DESERT SANDS FROM THE FRENCH ALPS

NASA funded scientists, using an atmospheric computer model, proved for the first time dust from China’s…

NASA HELPS CELEBRATE CENTENNIAL OF FLIGHT IN NORTH CAROLINA

NASA will unveil a comprehensive new Centennial of Flight exhibit at the Festival of Flight 2003,…

SOOT HAS IMPACT ON GLOBAL CLIMATE

A team of researchers, led by NASA and Columbia University scientists, found airborne, microscopic, black-carbon (soot)…