Landers feel the heat on space missions

Space is certainly a cold place, but spacecraft have to face extremely high temperatures when they…

Jules Verne– Europes first Automated Transfer Vehicle

Today, about 90 percent of the hardware for Jules Verne, Europes first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV)…

EDUCATOR ASTRONAUT PROGRAM SOARING

Nominations for NASA’s Educator Astronaut Program are in high orbit. Since the Program’s kickoff January 21,…

ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITE READIED TO DETECT SOLAR STORMS

The nation’s newest environmental satellite, GOES-12, is being readied for operations, NASA and the Commerce Department’s…

SHUTTLE DESERT DUST EXPERIMENT DELIVERS

An experiment aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-107) has uncovered a new phenomenon. Researchers made the…

OCEAN SURFACE SALTINESS INFLUENCES EL NINO FORECASTS

NASA sponsored scientists have discovered by knowing the salt content of the ocean’s surface, they may…

ESA on the trail of the earliest stars

Somewhere in the distant, old Universe, a population of stars hide undetected. They were the first…

NASA JOINS SNOW STUDY OVER THE SEA OF JAPAN

NASA and two Japanese government agencies are collaborating on a snowfall study over Wakasa Bay, Japan.…

NASA SELECTS NINE INNOVATIVE SMALL BUSINESS PROJECTS

NASA has selected nine research proposals for negotiation of Phase 2 contract awards for the 2001…

WATER RECYCLING EXPERIMENT FLYING HIGH

In a remote, hostile, totally alien environment, every life-sustaining resource is precious. In space, other than…