Software on a NASA spacecraft recently made a scientific observation on its own without human interaction.…
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GLOBAL FIX ON FOOD, WOOD & FIBER USE
NASA scientists working with the World Wildlife Fund and others have measured how much of Earth’s…
ISS STATUS REPORT: SS04-015
Father’s Day came early for astronaut Mike Fincke, 225 miles in space aboard the International Space…
CASSINI OPENS A COSMIC TIME CAPSULE
Like a woolly mammoth trapped in Arctic ice, Saturn’s small moon Phoebe may be a frozen…
SHUTTLE PROCESSING STATUS REPORT: S04-16
The Space Shuttle fleet is housed and processed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Fla. The…
SURPRISING ANATOMY OF A COMET
Findings from a historic encounter between NASA’s Stardust spacecraft and a comet revealed much stranger findings…
REMOTE HEALTH MONITORS
A lightweight, portable device developed by NASA scientists is enabling physicians to monitor the health and…
HURRICANES MAY HELP PLANKTON BLOOM
Whenever a hurricane races across the Atlantic Ocean, chances are phytoplankton will bloom behind it. According…
ISS STATUS REPORT: SS04-014
The International Space Station (ISS) crew is spending its seventh week onboard the orbiting laboratory continuing…
SAFER SHUTTLE SOLID ROCKET MOTOR
NASA’s Space Shuttle program successfully fired a full-scale Reusable Solid Rocket Motor, testing modifications that will…