NASA to Get $100 Million for Asteroid-Capture Mission, Senator Says
NASA will likely get $100 million next year to jump-start an audacious program to drag an asteroid into orbit around the moon for research and exploration purposes, U.S. Senator Bill Nelson says. The...
View ArticleNASA and STEM Education Programs Face Consolidation
The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has just released President Obama’s budget request for 2014. It will take some time for the budget’s full impacts on science to be dissected and...
View ArticleNASA’s New Class of Astronauts Gives Parity to Men and Women
One flies a fighter jet for the Marines. Another is an assistant professor of anesthesiology at Harvard Medical School. A third is a helicopter pilot for the Army. And the fourth leads the station in...
View ArticleNASA Needs More Women, Top Official Says
The U.S. space agency is in need of more women among its ranks, NASA’s second-in-command said last week during a panel on women in space. Article>>
View ArticleNASA Introduces New Astronaut Class of 2013
Eight shiny, new astronauts with the right stuff were introduced by NASA today at the Johnson Space Center. They are the class of 2013 – four women and four men who made it through the rigorous...
View ArticleNASA Collaborates with Boys and Girls Clubs of America to Inspire the Next...
NASA signed a Space Act Agreement Wednesday with the Boys and Girls Club of America (BGCA) to infuse the agency’s science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) content into their activities...
View ArticleInternational Space Station Celebrates 15th Year in Orbit
The International Space Station celebrates its 15th birthday Wednesday, marking the day in 1998 when a Russian rocket lifted the first piece of what is now the largest man-made structure ever built in...
View ArticlePresident Obama’s National Space Transportation Policy: A Bold Vision for Space
The President has signed an updated National Space Transportation Policy, which ensures that the United States remains the world’s leader in space exploration and scientific discovery, while...
View ArticleFormer NASA Astronaut Urges Educators to Make STEM ‘More Exciting’
Top executives from the pharmaceutical industry gathered in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday to prescribe a remedy to “reinvigorate” America’s stagnating science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)...
View ArticleNASA’s 2013 Astronaut Candidates Promote STEM Education at Smithsonian Event
NASA Television will provide live coverage at 10 a.m. EST Thursday, Jan. 30 of an educational event at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington featuring the agency’s 2013...
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