Cosmic-Ray Fe Intensity Reaches Record Levels in 2008-2009

Cosmic-Ray Fe Intensity Reaches Record Levels in 2008-2009 PDF version Recent Ulysses data show that during the current solar minimum the interplanetary magnetic field strength and solar wind pressure are at the lowest levels of the space era. Since the solar wind and its embedded magnetic field play key roles in controlling the access of

NASA Names 16th Annual Great Moonbuggy Race Winners

NASA Names 16th Annual Great Moonbuggy Race WinnersApr 27, 11:44 am MTSU students took home the NASA Safety Systems Award at this month’s Great Moonbuggy Race held at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala.HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — NASA this weekend named its “off-world racing” champions in the 16th annual Great Moonbuggy Race: Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, N.Y. won

Astronaut Training Experience – Family ATX

Astronaut Training Experience – Family ATX May 1 - 2 Time(s): 2:00 p.m. ET Your family will spend two days immersed in astronaut training, riding realistic simulators, and building and launching your own rockets. You will meet a real NASA astronaut and spend time exploring Kennedy Space Center on a very special tour designed for Family Astronaut Training

Astronaut Story Musgrave

Astronaut Story MusgraveApril 30 - May 1 Various Astronaut Encounter times throughout the day; Lunch with an Astronaut begins at 12:15 PM daily.Guests have the opportunity to come face-to-face with a real Astronaut every day of the year. This half-hour, interactive Q&A-oriented program aims at inspiring children and adults alike to strive for excellence.This featured Astronaut

Astronaut Al Worden

Astronaut Al WordenApril 27 - 29 Various Astronaut Encounter times throughout the day; Lunch with an Astronaut begins at 12:15 PM daily.Guests have the opportunity to come face-to-face with a real Astronaut every day of the year. This half-hour, interactive Q&A-oriented program aims at inspiring children and adults alike to strive for excellence.This featured Astronaut will

NASA To Hold Briefing To Discuss New Findings About Planet Mercury

WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a media teleconference on Thursday, April 30, at 2 p.m. EDT to discuss new data and findings revealed by the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging spacecraft known as MESSENGER.The spacecraft is the first mission designed to orbit the planet closest to the sun. The probe flew past Mercury on Jan. 14, 2008, and Oct. 6, 2008,

NASA TV to Air U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame Induction May 2

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA Television will provide live coverage of the 2009 U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Saturday, May 2, at 3 p.m. EDT. The ceremony will take place at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida.Joining the hall of fame this year are former astronauts George "Pinky" Nelson, one of only four space shuttle astronauts to fly

Spinoff 2008 Nasa Technology Award Winners

NASA Technology Award Winners

Since its inception in 1976, Spinoff has featured myriad award-winning technologies that have been recognized by NASA and industry as forerunners in innovation. Here is a chronology of these winners, including the year(s) they were featured in Spinoff and the year they were awarded one (or more) of the following:

R&D 100 The R&D 100 Awards were established in 1963

NASA Sets Briefing About Shuttle's Readiness to Service Hubble

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA managers have scheduled a news conference on Thursday, April 30 to discuss the status of the next space shuttle launch. The briefing, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, is set to begin no earlier than 6 p.m. EDT. It will start after the conclusion of the Flight Readiness Review, a meeting to assess preparations for shuttle Atlantis' STS-125

Updated Web Feature Shows How NASA Technologies Improve Lives

WASHINGTON -- NASA has launched an expanded version of an interactive online program that allows users to discover some of the many NASA technologies that positively impact everyday life. The interactive "NASA at Home" and "NASA City" sites are enhanced with many new features, including green-related information to coincide with Earth Day 2009.NASA at Home and NASA City take users on an

NASA Sets Briefings to Provide Update About Hubble Shuttle Mission

WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold news briefings April 23 to update reporters about the space shuttle's fifth and final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. NASA Television and the agency's Web site will provide live coverage of the briefings from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston and NASA Headquarters in Washington.Shuttle Atlantis' 11-day flight, designated STS-

Emission from the White Dwarf System GD 16

Emission from the White Dwarf System GD 16 This chart shows the brightness and wavelength of the radiation coming from white dwarf GD 16 and its associated disk of closely orbiting rocky material. The data was obtained with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The colored data points indicate hot emission from the white dwarf (left of the graph) and cool emission from the surrounding material (right

NASA's Apollo 14 Legacy Continues with Earth Day Tree Planting

WASHINGTON -- Media representatives are invited to join NASA, the National Arboretum and American Forests to celebrate Earth Day and the 40th anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing with a tree planting ceremony April 22 at the National Arboretum, 3501 New York Avenue N.E., Washington. The planting ceremony begins at 1 p.m. EDT. NASA astronaut Stuart Roosa had been a U.S

NASA, NSBRI Select 12 Proposals to Support Crew Health on Missions

WASHINGTON -- NASA's Human Research Program and the National Space Biomedical Research Institute, or NSBRI, of Houston will fund a dozen proposals to help investigate questions about astronaut health and performance on future space exploration missions. The selected proposals, representing 11 institutions in eight states, will receive a total of almost $16 million during a

NASA Celebrates Earth Day Across the Country

WASHINGTON -- NASA centers across the nation invite journalists and the public to see and hear about the agency's efforts and contributions to understanding and protecting Earth.Begun in 1970, Earth Day is the annual celebration of the environment and a time to assess work still needed to protect the natural resources of our planet. The agency maintains the largest contingent

Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel Releases Annual Report

WASHINGTON -- The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel, or ASAP, has released its 2008 annual report. The report examines NASA's safety performance and advises agency and government leaders on ways to improve performance.The ASAP is an independent group of experts that has been evaluating NASA's safety performance and advising the agency on ways to improve that performance since it was established in

NASA Selects 16 Small Business Technology Transfer Projects

WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected 16 proposals for negotiation of Phase 2 contract awards in the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program. The selected projects have a total value of approximately $9.6 million. The contracts will be awarded to 16 hi-tech firms partnered with 15 universities in 18 states.The Small Business Administration provides guidance for the general

Pilot of Final Shuttle Mission to Hubble Set for Satellite Interviews

HOUSTON -- NASA astronaut Gregory C. Johnson, a native of Seattle, will be available for live interviews via satellite from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. CDT on Tuesday, April 21. Johnson will make his first trip into space as the pilot of space shuttle Atlantis during STS-125, the final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. Launch is targeted for May 12 from NASA's Kennedy

NASA Spacecraft Show Three Dimensional Anatomy of a Solar Storm

WASHINGTON -- Twin NASA spacecraft have provided scientists with their first view of the speed, trajectory, and three-dimensional shape of powerful explosions from the sun known as coronal mass ejections, or CMEs. This new capability will dramatically enhance scientists' ability to predict if and how these solar tsunamis could affect Earth.When directed toward our planet,

NASA New Space Station Module Name Honors Apollo 11 Anniversary

WASHINGTON -- The International Space Station module formerly known as Node 3 has a new name. After more than a million online responses, the node will be called "Tranquility." The name Tranquility was chosen from thousands of suggestions submitted by participants on NASA's Web site, www.nasa.gov. The "Help Name Node 3" poll asked people to vote for the module's name either by

NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour Moves to Launch Pad Friday

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Reporters are invited to cover space shuttle Endeavour's move from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B on Friday, April 17, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The 4.2-mile journey is scheduled to begin at 12:01 a.m. EDT and will take approximately seven hours.Journalists can participate in a photo opportunity for the shuttle's

NASA to Announce New Space Station Module Name April 14

WASHINGTON -- NASA's newest module for the International Space Station will get a new name on April 14. The agency plans to make the announcement with the help of Expedition 14 and 15 astronaut Sunita "Suni" Williams on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report." The program will air at 11:30 p.m. EDT.The name, which will not be publicly released until the program airs, was

NASA Johnson Safety and Mission Assurance Contract Extended

WASHINGTON -- NASA has exercised a $58 million, one-year extension option for a contract with Science Applications International Corporation of Houston to provide support to safety and mission assurance activities at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The Safety and Mission Assurance Support Services contract helps ensure safety, reliability, maintainability, and

NASA Science Update to Discuss Anatomy of Solar Storms

WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a Science Update at 1 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, April 14, to present new findings and three-dimensional views revealing the inner workings of solar storms known as coronal mass ejections. The data will improve the ability to predict how and when these solar tsunamis impact Earth, affecting communication systems, power grids, and other technology.

Cool Stars May Have Different Prebiotic Chemical Mix

Cool Stars May Have Different Prebiotic Chemical Mix NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope detected a prebiotic, or potentially life-forming, molecule called hydrogen cyanide (HCN) in the planet-forming disks around yellow stars like our sun, but not in the disks around cooler, reddish stars.The observations are plotted in this graph, called a spectrum, in which light from the gas in the disks around

NASA Astronaut Tweets Provide Inside Look at Mission Training

HOUSTON -- NASA astronaut Mike Massimino is using Twitter to provide a unique, behind the scenes peek at the last weeks of his training for the fifth and final shuttle servicing mission to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.Massimino, whose Twitter username is Astro_Mike (@Astro_Mike), will fly aboard space shuttle Atlantis as a mission specialist and spacewalker during the

Satellites Show Arctic Literally on Thin Ice

WASHINGTON -- The latest Arctic sea ice data from NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center show that the decade-long trend of shrinking sea ice cover is continuing. New evidence from satellite observations also shows that the ice cap is thinning as well. Arctic sea ice works like an air conditioner for the global climate system. Ice naturally cools air and water

M33: A Close Neighbor Reveals its True Size and Splendor

M33: A Close Neighbor Reveals its True Size and Splendor One of our closest galactic neighbors shows its awesome beauty in this new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. M33, also known as the Triangulum Galaxy, is a member of what's known as our Local Group of galaxies. Along with our own Milky Way, this group travels together in the universe, as they are gravitationally bound. In fact,

M33: A Close Neighbor Reveals its True Size and Splendor

M33: A Close Neighbor Reveals its True Size and Splendor One of our closest galactic neighbors shows its awesome beauty in this new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. M33, also known as the Triangulum Galaxy, is a member of what's known as our Local Group of galaxies. Along with our own Milky Way, this group travels together in the universe, as they are gravitationally bound. In fact,

"Signatures in Space" Connects Kids to Space Day Celebrations

WASHINGTON -- NASA and Lockheed Martin's Student Signatures in Space (S3) program will be one of the highlighted projects during this year's Space Day, celebrated annually on the first Friday in May. The mission of Space Day is to use space-related activities to inspire and prepare young people for careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.Student

NASA Joins "Around the World in 80 Telescopes"

WASHINGTON -- A collection of NASA missions will be involved in a live event April 3 that will allow the public to get an inside look at how these missions are run. "Around the World in 80 Telescopes" is a 24-hour webcast that is part of the "100 Hours of Astronomy" event for the International Year of Astronomy 2009.During the webcast, viewers will be able to visit

NASA Inspector General Robert Cobb Resigns

WASHINGTON -- NASA Inspector General Robert Cobb submitted a letter of resignation to the White House on Thursday, April 2, 2009. President Barack Obama accepted Cobb's resignation, which is effective April 11.The text of the letter is:Dear Mr. President:With this letter I tender my resignation as the Inspector General of the National Aeronautics and Space

NASA Sets Briefings for Upcoming Shuttle Mission to Hubble

HOUSTON -- NASA will hold briefings Thursday, April 23, to update reporters about the space shuttle's fifth and final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. NASA Television and the agency's Web site will provide live coverage of the briefings from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston and from NASA Headquarters in Washington. Questions also will be taken from