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NASA Selects Community College Scholars For Chance To Design Space RoversWashington DC (SPX) Apr 22, 2010 Seventy-six students from community colleges in 28 states and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico have been selected to travel to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, May 20-22, for an out-of-this-world experience. They will participate in a three-day on-site event to develop robotic explorers that will rove the surfaces of other worlds. This event is the culmination of the National Community College Aerospace Scholars pilot program. Students completed four Web-based assignments during the school y ... read more |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 12, 2010NASA has successfully completed the first science flight of the Global Hawk unpiloted aircraft system over the Pacific Ocean. The flight was the first of five scheduled for this month's Global Hawk Pacific, or GloPac, mission to study atmospheric science over the Pacific and Arctic oceans. The Global Hawk is a robotic plane that can fly autonomously to altitudes above 18,288 meters (60,000 ... more  
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 12, 2010GPS navigational devices are as ubiquitous as cell phones, freely used by commercial and government users alike to determine location, time, and velocity. These tools, however, are only as good as the signals they receive. Now, NASA engineers have found a way to improve the reception of those signals. GPS, which stands for the Global Positioning System, is a satellite-based navigation syst ... more  
Washington (AFP) April 10, 2010The space shuttle Discovery's mission was extended by an extra 24 hours for routine heat shield inspections while it is docked with the International Space Station, NASA announced Saturday. Landing was now scheduled for Monday, April 19, at 1254 GMT (0854 local time) to cap what will be a 14-day mission. "Since Discovery's Ku-Band communications system is not functioning correctly, the s ... more |
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Discovery astronauts begin spacewalkWashington (AFP) April 9, 2010 Two astronauts from the shuttle Discovery began a six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk Friday, working on an ammonia tank on the outside of the International Space Station, NASA said. Mission specialists Clayton Anderson and Rick Mastracchio left the shuttle's airlock at 0531 GMT for the first of three space walks during the 13-day mission to resupply the space station. Mastracchio, the lead spacewalker, was seen in images beamed to Earth working on an ammonia tank on the outside of the space station, ... read more |
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