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