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Monday, June 17, 2013

  • NASA Invites Media to View Space Launch System Progress
    WASHINGTON, June 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations William Gerstenmaier and other agency officials will debut a new machine for manufacturing NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) and check on development progress with the heavy-lift rocket at the agency's Michoud Assembly Facility ... read more

Friday, June 14, 2013

  • NASA Invites Media to Asteroid Initiative Industry and Partner Day
    WASHINGTON, June 14, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Deputy Administrator Lori Garver and other senior NASA officials will discuss the progress being made on NASA's mission to capture, redirect, and explore an asteroid June 18. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) They also will outline engagement opportunities for industry, international partners and the ... read more
  • NASA's Webb Telescope's Last Backbone Component Completed
    WASHINGTON, June 14, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Assembly of the backbone of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the primary mirror backplane support structure, is a step closer to completion with the recent addition of the backplane support frame, a fixture that will be used to connect all the ... read more
  • NASA Announces Memorial Service For Astronaut Neil Armstrong
    HOUSTON, June 14, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA will honor the life and historic achievements of astronaut Neil Armstrong during a memorial service at 10 a.m. CDT Thursday, June 20, at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Armstrong made history on July 20, 1969, when he became the ... read more
  • NASA-Led Study Explains Decades Of Black Hole Observations
    GREENBELT, Md., June 14, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new study by astronomers at NASA, Johns Hopkins University and the Rochester Institute of Technology confirms long-held suspicions about how stellar-mass black holes produce their highest-energy light. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) "Our work traces the complex motions, particle interactions and ... read more
  • Students And Teachers Become Rocket Scientists At NASA's Wallops Flight Facility
    WASHINGTON, June 14, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- More than 120 students and educators will delve into the world of rocket science June 15-21 during Rocket Week at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's Eastern Shore. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) Activities during the week will include a RockOn! workshop for 50 university ... read more

Thursday, June 13, 2013

  • NASA Awards Office of Human Capital Management Professional Services Contract
    GREENBELT, Md., June 13, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA has selected All Native, Inc. of Winnebago, Neb. for award of the Office of Human Capital Management Professional Services contract. The work will be performed at NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C., and at all NASA Goddard Space Flight Center facilities ... read more
  • Warm Ocean, Not Icebergs, Causing Most Of Antarctic Ice Shelves' Mass Loss
    PASADENA, Calif., June 13, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Ocean waters melting the undersides of Antarctic ice shelves are responsible for most of the continent's ice shelf mass loss, a new study by NASA and university researchers has found. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) Scientists have studied the rates of basal melt, or the ... read more
  • NASA's Hubble Uncovers Evidence Of Farthest Planet Forming From Its Star
    WASHINGTON, June 13, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found compelling evidence of a planet forming 7.5 billion miles away from its star, a finding that may challenge current theories about planet formation. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) Of the almost 900 planets outside our solar system ... read more

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

  • NASA's Chandra Turns Up Black Hole Bonanza In Galaxy Next Door
    WASHINGTON, June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have discovered an unprecedented bonanza of black holes in the Andromeda Galaxy, one of the nearest galaxies to the Milky Way. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) Using more than 150 Chandra observations, spread over 13 years, researchers ... read more

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

  • NASA Schedules Media Events And Coverage For New Solar Mission Launch
    WASHINGTON, June 11, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission is scheduled to launch at 7:27 p.m. PDT (10:27 p.m. EDT) Wednesday, June 26, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) Launch on an Orbital Sciences Corporation Pegasus XL rocket is targeted for ... read more

Monday, June 10, 2013

  • NASA Astrobiologist to Discuss Exotic Earths at Library of Congress Spring Lecture
    WASHINGTON, June 10, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The public is invited to a free lecture called "Exotic Earths: Exploring Planets Around Other Stars" by NASA astrobiologist Avi Mandell at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. The free lecture will be held on Wednesday, June 19, at 11:30 ... read more
  • NASA Awards Johnson Safety And Mission Assurance Contract
    WASHINGTON, June 10, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA has selected Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) of McLean, Va., to provide safety and mission assurance engineering support services for the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract has a three-year base period beginning Oct. 1, and ... read more
  • NASA Astronaut To Attend Summer Skies At Macomb
    HOUSTON, June 10, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA astronaut and Michigan native Andrew "Drew" Feustel will attend the Summer Skies at Macomb star party at 7:30 p.m. EDT Friday, June 14, at Macomb Community College's South Campus in Warren, Mich. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) Feustel's keynote presentation will be from 8:30 ... read more
  • NASA Announces 2013 Space Technology Research Grants
    WASHINGTON, June 10, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA has selected 65 graduate students as the 2013 class of Space Technology Research Fellows. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) This third class of space technology graduate students will conduct research relevant to agency technology challenges aligned with NASA's space technology roadmaps, while pursuing degrees ... read more

Friday, June 7, 2013

  • NASA Selects New Suborbital Payloads, Total Tops 100 Experiments
    WASHINGTON, June 7, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA has selected 21 space technology payloads for flights on commercial reusable launch vehicles, balloons, and a commercial parabolic aircraft. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO ) This latest selection represents the sixth cycle of NASA's continuing call for payloads through an announcement of opportunity. ... read more

Thursday, June 6, 2013

  • Massachusetts Students Speak With Space Station Astronauts
    WASHINGTON, June 6, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Expedition 36 crew members Chris Cassidy, Luca Parmitano, and Karen Nyberg will speak from the International Space Station to students at Douglas Public Schools in Massachusetts at 11:35 a.m. EDT, Monday, June 10. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) Students will be able to ask ... read more
  • NASA Flights Target How Pollution, Storms And Climate Mix
    WASHINGTON, June 6, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA aircraft will take to the skies over the southern United States this summer to investigate how air pollution and natural emissions, which are pushed high into the atmosphere by large storms, affect atmospheric composition and climate. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) NASA will conduct ... read more
  • NASA To Host June 7 Mars Rover Opportunity Teleconference
    PASADENA, Calif., June 6, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA will hold a media teleconference at 9 a.m. PDT (noon EDT) on Friday, June 7, to provide an update about the long-lived Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. The 10th anniversary of this rover's launch is next month. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The briefing ... read more
  • NASA's Orion Spacecraft Proves Sound Under Pressure
    WASHINGTON, June 6, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- After a month of being poked, prodded and pressurized in ways that mimicked the stresses of spaceflight, NASA's Orion crew module successfully passed its static loads tests on Wednesday. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) When Orion launches on Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1), which is ... read more