February 8, 2012 – As part of NASA’s ongoing efforts to foster development of a U.S. commercial crew space transportation capability to and from low Earth orbit and the International Space Station, NASA has issued a call for industry to submit proposals for the Commercial Crew Integrated Capability Initiative. It’s expected that proposals will lead [...]
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NASA Spinoff 2011 Unveils Benefits of NASA Technologies on Earth
February 7, 2012
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February 7, 2012 – NASA’s Spinoff 2011 publication, now available online, reveals how the space agency’s ingenuity and partnerships have saved thousands of lives, generated billions of dollars, and created thousands of American jobs. The latest edition of Spinoff records 44 journeys of NASA’s most innovative technologies. It chronicles their origins in NASA missions and [...]
Read moreNASA Seeks Proposals For Edison Small Satellite Demonstrations
February 2, 2012
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February 2, 2012 – NASA is seeking proposals for flight demonstrations of small satellite technologies with the goal of increasing the technical capabilities and range of uses for this emerging category of spacecraft. Small satellites typically weigh less than 400 pounds (180 kg) and are generally launched as secondary payloads on rockets carrying larger spacecraft. [...]
Read moreNASA Glenn To Host Tweetup Celebrating 50th Anniversary Of First American To Orbit Earth
February 1, 2012
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January 31,2012 – NASA’s Glenn Research Center (GRC) in Cleveland will host a special event on March 2 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of John Glenn’s first orbital flight by an American. NASA also will invite 100 people for a behind-the-scenes Tweetup at GRC in advance of the celebration event. The Tweetup activities begin [...]
Read moreNASA’s J-2X Engine Kicks Off 2012 With Powerpack Testing
January 26, 2012
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January 26,2012. — A new series of tests on the engine that will help carry humans to deep space will begin next week at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in southern Mississippi. The tests on the J-2X engine bring NASA one step closer to the first human-rated liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen rocket engine to [...]
Read moreNASA’s NuSTAR Ships to Vandenberg Ahead of March 14 Launch
January 25, 2012
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January 25, 2012 — NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, shipped to Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., on Tuesday to be mated to its Pegasus launch vehicle. The observatory will detect X-rays from objects ranging from our sun to giant black holes billions of light-years away. It is scheduled to launch March 14 [...]
Read moreNASA Renames Earth-Observing Mission in Honor of Satellite Pioneer
January 25, 2012
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January 25 2012 — NASA has renamed its newest Earth-observing satellite in honor of the late Verner E. Suomi, a meteorologist at the University of Wisconsin who is recognized widely as “the father of satellite meteorology.” The announcement was made Jan. 24 at the annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society in New Orleans. NASA [...]
Read moreAstronaut Application Deadline Approaching
January 23, 2012
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January 23,2012 — Individuals interested in becoming America’s future space explorers have until Friday to submit their applications. The deadline to apply for NASA’s next astronaut class is Jan. 27. The agency typically receives as many as 3,500 applicants for each astronaut class. Thus far, NASA has received more than 3,000 applications since November [...]
Read moreNASA Clears The Runway For Open Source Software
January 18, 2012
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January 18, 2012 -The NASA Open Government Initiative has launched a new new website site to expand the agency’s open source software development. Open source development, which invites the public access to view and improve software source code, is transforming the way software is created, improved and used. NASA uses open source code to address project [...]
Read moreNASA to Simulate Asteroid Mission at Johnson Space Center
January 17, 2012
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January 16,2012 – An astronaut and geologist will camp out in a prototype Space Exploration Vehicle this week to simulate an asteroid mission at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Astronaut Al Drew and geologist Jose M. Hurtado of the University of Texas in El Paso will spend three days and two nights living [...]
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