NASA’s Exploration Systems Mission Directorate Responses to Questions from NASA Watch Feb. 27, 2008“Q: Did NASA pay for any civil servants and/or contractors to attend the Stanford University meeting “Examining […]
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Posted inAstronomy
My Very Exciting Magic Carpet Just Sailed Under Nine Palace Elephants
Can’t remember the 11 planets? 4th-grader offers help, AP“Those having trouble remembering the newly assigned 11 planets, including three dwarfs, are getting help from a fourth-grader. Maryn Smith, the winner […]
Posted inExploration
Exploration Conference Charts
3rd Space Exploration Conference Briefing Materials Online“The American institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), in collaboration with NASA, is pleased to announce that the Third Space Exploration Conference will be […]
Posted inVideos
Official NASA Constellation Propaganda Makes it to YouTube
Editor’s note: This is one instance where using professional announcers would have been preferable to sticking NASA engineers in front of a camera simply because of their management position. Or […]
Posted inSpace & Planetary Science
New Frontiers AO NET June
NASA Offers Pre-screening of Principal Investigator Revised Requirements for New Frontiers Opportunity“The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (SMD) plans to release an Announcement of Opportunity (AO) […]
Posted inISS News
The Mother of all ISS EVAs
Astronaut Scott Parazynski at the Explorers Club: Fixing A Solar Panel in Space“Astronaut Scott Parazynski describes his solar panel repair EVA during the STS-120 mission at a presentation made at […]
Posted inAstrobiology
Interplanetary Hitchikers
Life Forms Ejected on Asteroid Impact Could Survive to Reseed Earth According to a Study Published in Astrobiology “In the event that an asteroid or comet would impact Earth and […]
Posted inEducation
NASA City is Now Online
New Web Feature Shows How NASA Technologies Improve Our Lives“NASA has added to its Web site an interactive program that allows users to discover some of the many NASA technologies […]
Posted inSLS and Orion
Ares 1-X Update
Ares I-X Test To Study Vibrations, Aerospace Daily & Defense Report“NASA engineers are adding instrumentation to the first full-scale flight version of the Ares I crew launch vehicle to gather […]
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Cross-Waiver of Liability: Final rule
NASA: Cross-Waiver of Liability: Final rule“SUMMARY: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is amending its regulations which provide the regulatory basis for cross- waiver provisions used in the following […]