Students and teachers from throughout the nation will be gathering at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston April 29-May 1 to present research results to fellow students and NASA scientists and engineers. The 62 students and 31 educators will represent 31 NASA Explorer Schools at an annual national student symposium.
The students will learn more about [...]

NASA has chosen the material for a heat shield that will protect a new generation of space explorers when they return from the moon. After extensive study, NASA has selected the Avcoat ablator system for the Orion crew module.
Orion is part of the Constellation Program that is developing the country’s next-generation spacecraft system for human [...]

NASA’s Kepler mission to seek other Earth-like planets is undergoing final preparations for liftoff Friday, March 6, from Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The spacecraft launch aboard a Delta II rocket has two windows of opportunity Friday, from 10:49 to 10:52 p.m. and 11:13 to 11:16 p.m. EST.
Kepler is designed [...]

The power to visualize highly complex information in a way that’s easier for the human mind to grasp is taking a giant leap forward with the advent of NASA’s new hyperwall-2 system unveiled today at Ames Research Center.
Developed by scientists and engineers in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division at Ames, the 128-screen hyperwall-2, capable [...]

NASA Awards Institutional Support Services Contract at Kennedy
NASA’s Kennedy Space Center has awarded Rede-Critique of Metairie, La., the contract for Kennedy institutional support services.
The indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract has an estimated value of $45 million during a four-year, six-month performance period, which includes a six-month base period and four one-year option periods. The contract consolidates various [...]

NASA Media Briefing Provides Check-Up on Polar Sea Ice
NASA will hold a media teleconference on Tuesday, March 18, at 12 p.m. EDT, to present the latest satellite observations of changing sea ice conditions in Earth’s northern and southern polar regions.
Last September, sea ice levels reached record summertime lows in the Arctic, continuing a decades-long decline. [...]

NASA Media Briefing Provides Check-Up on Polar Sea Ice
NASA will hold a media teleconference on Tuesday, March 18, at 12 p.m. EDT, to present the latest satellite observations of changing sea ice conditions in Earth’s northern and southern polar regions.
Last September, sea ice levels reached record summertime lows in the Arctic, continuing a decades-long decline. [...]

Hubble Detects Organic Molecule on an Extrasolar Planet
NASA will hold a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, March 19, to report on the first-ever detection of the organic molecule methane in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting a distant star.
Though the planet is too hot to support life as we know it, the [...]

Shaping the Moonscape: Workers Ready Course for NASA’s 15th Annual Great Moonbuggy Race in Huntsville, Ala., April 4-5
Each year around this time, John Tripp walks across a lunar surface, pondering the challenges ahead for explorers brave enough to take on its cratered terrain. For now, his “moon” is a winding ribbon of cement footpaths looped [...]

NASA to Release Science Results and New Images From Mercury Flyby
NASA will hold a press conference at 1 p.m. EST on Wednesday, Jan. 30, to announce scientific findings and release never-before-seen images of Mercury. The images were taken during a NASA spacecraft’s January flyby of the planet. The briefing will take place in the NASA [...]