IMAGE NASA Receives Highest Number of Astronaut Applicants in Over 30 Years
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In case you had forgotten, NASA has extended its search for new astronauts online in recent years, giving anyone the chance to apply for what is probably the coolest job on the planet. NASA won’t be t...
This Is NASA's Cancer-Sniffing Cellphone Sensor
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What if you could use your phone to test the air for toxins? What if you could monitor your health simply by blowing on it? Sounds amazing, right? Nanosensor technology developed by NASA Ames is going...
VIDEO Station Crew Discusses Mission with AP and CNN
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The crew of The International Space Station spoke with representatives of The Associated Press and CNN during in-flight interviews on Jan. 20. With the recent arrival of Expedition 30 Flight Engineers...
NASA Night Sky Network | Facebook
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Experience the sky through a telescope! Go to an astro club event. The NASA Night Sky Network is the place to find star parties and astronomy clubs in the U.S.
VIDEO NASA Future Forum Examines Nation's Goals in Space
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Closing remarks wrap up the Dec. 9 NASA Future Forum held at The Museum of Flight in Seattle. (Part 4 of 4) Since 2008, the agency's ongoing series of Future Forums have provided NASA leadership, tech...
IMAGE Appropriately Named “Very Large Telescope” Uses World’s Largest Virtual Mirror
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Though the first of the VLTs four primary telescopes was completed in 1999, plans to link the telescopes together as a single, massive unit have been in the works for nearly a decade. After years of w...
VIDEO ISS Passes Over Stormy Africa (w/Milky Way)
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This all too brief time lapse video from the International Space Station shows our home planet with storms sparking over Africa. It’s a breathtaking, if humbling, view, made all the more so by the eno...
GRAIL Probes Circle Moon on New Year's Day
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NASA rang in the New Year by placing a pair of probes into the moon’s orbit. Over the New Year’s weekend, the GRAIL probes arrived in the lunar orbit, and scientists celebrated by cheering and blow...
VIDEO NASA Future Forum Hosted by Seattle's Museum of Flight
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An address by NASA Deputy Administrator, Lori Garver. (Part 1 of 4) Since 2008, the agency's ongoing series of Future Forums have provided NASA leadership, technologists, scientists, and engineers an ...
IMAGE NASA studying solar-electric propulsion for “space tugboat”
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What a 'space tugboat' incorporating a high energy solar electric propulsion (SEP) system might look like (Image: Boeing) Last year, NASA announced it was seeking proposals for mission concept stud...
VIDEO A Spacesuit Ballet
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Of the suit he wore on the moon, Neil Armstrong wrote, "it was tough, reliable, and almost cuddly." But that cuddly suit, made by the company Playtex, had some stiff competition (literally) from rival...
National Aeronautics and Space Administration - NASA | Facebook
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NASA's official Facebook page. Share your passion for space, aeronautics and science!
VIDEO NASA's Swift and Hubble Probe Asteroid Collision Debris
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Scientists believed that they were observing an unusual comet, but soon they realized that they have caught on tape, for the very first time, a collision between two asteroids.
NASA International Year of Chemistry (IYC) - NASA Science
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chemistry also tells us the composition (and history) of stars, planets & moons, both in our Solar System, & beyond. It plays a key role in the search for life. Detailed understanding of chemical stru...
VIDEO ScienceCasts: Smallest Terrestrial Planet?
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NASA's Dawn probe, now orbiting Vesta in the asteroid belt, has found some surprising things on the giant asteroid--things that have prompted one researcher to declare Vesta "the smallest terrestrial ...
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