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NASA invites its Twitter followers to a special Tweetup with astronaut Ron Garan at 1:30 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Feb. 14. The event will take place in the James E. Webb Memorial Auditorium at NASA Headquarters, 300 E St. SW,…
NASA will host a news conference at 10 a.m. PST (1 p.m. EST), on Tuesday, Jan. 17, to announce the names selected from a nationwide student contest for twin spacecraft that will study the moon in unprecedented detail. The event…
Who hasn’t heard about the rumors spreading for the past years about the world ending in 2012? Everyone must have read about the predictions that the earth will finally see its end in December 2012. So what has NASA got…
NASA Kicks Off Application Process For New Astronauts. News media representatives are invited to attend a public announcement of NASA’s process for selecting its next class of astronauts. The event starts at 1 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Nov. 15, in…
NASA Administrator, Charles Bolden, announced on Tuesday the different facility locations where four shuttle orbiters will be displayed permanently at the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program. Shuttle Enterprise, the first orbiter built, will move from the Smithsonian’s National Air…
Today, January 28, 2011, is the Challenger explosion 25th anniversary. The Space Shuttle Challenger Explodes on its 10th flight during mission STS-51-L. The explosion occurred 73 seconds after liftoff and was actually the result of rapid deceleration and not combustion…
SpaceX successfully launched the Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon spacecraft on Wednesday at 10:43 a.m. EST from NASA’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. SpaceX, which was webcasting the launch, cut off coverage as the rocket’s second-stage engine completed its…
Science Magazine, in which NASA astrobiology research fellow Dr. Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues’ article “A Bacterium That Can Grow by Using Arsenic Instead of Phosphorous” will appear, has released this YouTube video. But now researchers have coaxed a microbe to…
The NASA announcement is going live right now on NASA’s website. While no discovery of extraterrestrial life has been mentioned, NASA has indeed uncovered an entirely new life form on our planet that “doesn’t share the biological building blocks of…
NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF) Program NASA announces a call for graduate fellowship proposals to the NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF) program for the 2011-2012 academic year. This call for fellowship proposals solicits applications from accredited…