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Astronauts wait to hear news of a baby daughter...our planning a little bit easier," said flight director Brian Smith. Smith joked: "Don't the doctors and Rebecca realize this is NASA and I've got a very well thought out, well-planned, meticulous timeline and they are not abiding by it." In this article: Randolph Bresnik, NASA, E mail, Atlantis, International Space Station, Houston, and Florida |
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NASA Breaking News | 1 day ago
NASA Pushes Social Media Experience to New Heights
...by the extraordinary number of people from all over the world who participated," said Lori Garver, NASA's deputy administrator. "NASA will continue to evolve with the social media environment and look for new ways to engage the public and...
In this article: Twitter, NASA Television, Washington, Space Shuttle Atlantis, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, Nicole Stott, and YouTube
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NASA Awards $350,000 to Winning Astronaut Glove Designers
...2007. The designs presented in the competition were measured and evaluated by engineers from Johnson, NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida and NASA's spacesuit manufacturer, ILC Dover of Dover, Del. The Astronaut Glove Challenge is one...
In this article: Peter Homer, Titusville, Fla, and Washington
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Science Magazines Honor Cutting-Edge NASA Programs
...NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. NASA's Lunar Abort System is managed by NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission is...
In this article: Popular Science, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Popular Mechanics, and California
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Telegraph.co.uk - All news | 2 days ago
NASA and Microsoft launch 'explore Mars' website
...for NASA." "The beauty of this type of experience is that it not only teaches people about Mars and the work NASA is doing there, but it also engages large groups of people to help solve real challenges that computers cannot solve by...
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The Register | 3 days ago
NASA maps Mars with <strike>child labor</strike> web games
Posted in Space, 18th November 2009 06:02 GMT NASA is outsourcing laborious Martian cartography to Earth children with a website that entices users to make a game out of sorting through the space agency's hundreds of thousands images of...
In this article: Mars, Microsoft, 2001 Mars Odyssey, Funions, Cartography, Outsourcing, Mars Global Surveyor, and Google
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Reuters | 4 days ago
NASA launches shuttle Atlantis to space station
Reuters top ten news stories delivered to your inbox each day. NASA launches shuttle Atlantis to space station CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - The U.S. space shuttle Atlantis lifted off its seaside launch pad on Monday, loaded with...
In this article: Space Shuttle Atlantis, Randy Bresnik, Robert Satcher, Barry Wilmore, All rights reserved, Orion, International Space Station, and Leland Melvin
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AP Online | 4 days ago
NASA fuels space shuttle Atlantis for liftoff
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA fueled space shuttle Atlantis on Monday for an afternoon liftoff to the space station, despite increasingly cloudy skies. Forecasters put the odds of acceptable weather at 70 percent, not nearly as good as...
In this article: Space Shuttle Atlantis, Twitter, International Space Station, Charles Hobaugh, and Florida
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washingtonpost.com | 4 days ago
NASA fuels space shuttle Atlantis for liftoff
In this article: Space Shuttle Atlantis, International Space Station, and Florida
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New Scientist - Latest Headlines | 4 days ago
NASA to restart primate irradiation testing
...affects the brain, but it is still unclear how much of a risk it poses to deep-space explorers. NASA says it wants to find out what is needed to protect them. How is this different from the radiation research NASA has done before?
In this article: Mars, International Space Station, Oxygen, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Anxiety, Harvard Medical School, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and US
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NASA fuels space shuttle Atlantis for liftoff
In this article: Space Shuttle Atlantis, International Space Station, and Florida
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, pronounced: /ˈnæsə/) is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program. NASA was established by the National Aeronautics and Space Act on July 29, 1958, replacing its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). The agency became operational on October 1, 1958. NASA has led U.S. efforts for space exploration ever since, resulting in the Apollo missions to the Moon, the Skylab space station, and later the Space Shuttle. Currently NASA is supporting the International Space Station and developing new Ares I and V launch vehicles.
In addition to the space program, it is also responsible for long-term civilian and military aerospace research. NASA Science is focused on better understanding Earth itself through the Earth Observing System, advancing heliophysics through the efforts of the Science Mission Directorate's Heliophysics Research Program, exploring bodies throughout the Solar System with advanced robotic missions such as New Horizons, and researching astrophysics topics, such as the Big Bang, through the Great Observatories and associated programs. Since February 2006 NASA's self-described mission statement is to "pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery, and aeronautics research."
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration shares data with various national and international organizations such as from the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite.
- Name:
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Also Known As:
- NASA
- Headquarters:
- Washington, D.C.
- No. of Employees:
- 17,900
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