There is a practical use for math and science. That’s what we tell kids. It helps to have an astronaut who commanded a mission in space just four months ago to hammer that lesson home…
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Archive for February 26, 2008
NASA Awards $171M Deal to Commercial Space Cargo Firm
One enterprising aerospace startup just won a huge contract from NASA to develop the next generation of space cargo systems…
Discover Science Place Receives Astronaut Visit
(Staff Photo By Herb Nygren Jr.) AUTOGRAPH: NASA astronaut Lee Morin signs an autograph for Leighton Meyers IV’s scrapbook as father Leighton Meyers III holds his son at the Discovery Science Place Saturday afternoon.
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Election may affect NASA future
In a year in which presidential campaign topics have included space, talk of re-evaluating NASA’s space vision abounds. NASA says it is on track to retire the shuttle fleet by 2010 and move on with higher aspirations.
Mars lander’s chem lab is NASA’s MECA
If you think engineering design today is focused only on high-volume, short-cycle, penny-critical products, you’re wrong. NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander, launched from Cape Canaveral Aug. 4, carries a platform of seven analytical lab instruments that represent the culmination of years of extraordinarily detailed thinking, planning, evaluation, redesign and production, all to exacting standards, for …
NASA Shuttle Lands Safely, Ending Columbus Mission
Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) — The space shuttle Atlantis landed at a Florida airstrip today, capping a 13-day mission that included delivery of the Columbus science lab, Europe’s biggest contribution to the space station.
NASA Exploration Systems Mission Directorate Responses to Questions from NASA Watch Feb. 20, 2008
Q: Has NASA directed civil servants and/or contractor personnel to look at Orion CEV designs that would be limited flying a crew of 4 to the ISS? A: No.
Rusk Company Makes NASA Moon Rovers
An east Texas company is being called upon to contribute to the space program.
NASA working out kinks in new craft
Vibrations in the booster might shake the top of the rocket so violently that any astronauts aboard would suffer severe, perhaps fatal, injuries. That sounds alarming, but NASA officials insist it’s just a step in designing and engineering — identifying problems and solving them.
NASA says it plans to fix rocket’s flaw
Preliminary calculations by NASA last summer suggested that the rocket it had on the drawing board to replace the space shuttle possessed a design flaw: vibrations in the booster might shake the top of the rocket so violently that any astronauts riding aboard would suffer severe, perhaps fatal, injuries.
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