NASA’s Kepler Mission Wins 2010 Software of Year Award by NASA Software Advisory Panel “NASA’s Kepler mission Science Operations Center software system was named winner of the 2010 NASA Software […]
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Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation at Stanford
FAA Creates Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation “U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has selected New Mexico State University (NMSU), Las […]
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Small Can Sometimes Be Better
NASA’s chief technologist seeks to develop transformative programs, SJ Mercury News “Ames has specialized in recent years in building closer ties with technology companies such as Google and Microsoft, and […]
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NASA Ames Makes Payloads Out of Phones and Toys
Cheaper, Better Satellites Made From Cellphones and Toys, Wired “Instead of investing in their own computer research and development, engineers at the NASA Ames Research Center are looking to cellphones […]
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New Director at NASA Lunar Science Institute
NASA Names New Director for Lunar Science Institute “Yvonne Pendleton has been named director of the NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI) headquartered at NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. […]
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New Uses For Old NASA Computers
NASA Ames Research Center Helps Underserved School Receive Used Computers “Times are tough, but none more so than for schools and their students. To promote equal opportunity for all children, […]
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Kepler Data Dump – And NASA Ignores it (Update)
Keith’s 6:08 pm EDT note: Surprise surprise, NASA just issued this press release at 6:08 pm EDT “NASA Releases Kepler Data On Potential Extrasolar Planets” even though the papers have […]
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The News Is Good At Some Field Centers
NASA Ames Stimulates Economy with Jobs, Innovation “NASA’s Ames Research Center generated 5,300 jobs and $877 million in total annual economic activity in the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area in […]
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PAO Ignores a Cool Education Event
Recipe for the Future: Pete Conrad Spirit of Innovation Awards Program Combines Entrepreneurship, Imagination and High-School Innovators “All winners were chosen from the 21 finalist teams that assembled for the […]
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ARC PAO: Asleep At The Wheel
Keith’s note: Earlier this month the LOIRP – Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project did a live webcast from Building 596 at NASA Ames Research Park. The project’s co-lead Dennis Wingo […]