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 01.04.02 - Note to Editor: Kick-Off Workshop Sets Students on Course to Robotics Competition
Over 100 high school students from 10 schools with their sights set on the 2001 FIRST National Competition will gather at Cuyahoga Community College's Unified Technologies Center (UTC) to learn about this year's challenge.
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 01.09.02 - Plum Brook Reactor Facility Decommissioning Quarterly Workgroup Meeting
Following are 10, 20 and 30-second public service announcements about the quarterly meeting of NASA Glenn Research Center's Plum Brook Station Closed Reactor Decommissioning Project Community Workgroup meeting scheduled for Tuesday, January 15.
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 01.14.02 - The Sky is the Limit at New Educational Facility
Students in Winston-Salem, N.C., will soon be using the latest computer software and hardware to discover the world of science and technology, including learning how to design an aircraft and plot its flight or taking a virtual trip to the International Space Station.
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 01.14.02 - Note to Editor: Reactor Facility Decommissioning Workgroup Quarterly Meeting
The Community Workgroup for the decommissioning of the closed Reactor Facility at NASA Glenn Research Center's Plum Brook Station will meet on Tuesday, January 15, from 7-9 p.m.
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 01.22.02 - Note to Editor: New NASA Administrator O'Keefe To Visit Glenn Research Center
NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe will visit NASA's Glenn Research Center Thursday, January 24 as he continues a tour of NASA's field centers.
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 01.28.02 - NASA Glenn Sets Record for Combined Federal Campaign Donations
Civil service employees at NASA's Glenn Research Center have set a record for donating to the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC).
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 01.31.02 - Note to Editor: NASA FY 2003 Budget Briefing Scheduled
A briefing for news media on NASA's fiscal year 2003 budget request will be held on Monday, February 4, at 3 p.m.
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 02.05.02 - Advanced Aeropropulsion Selections
Revolutionary new aircraft propulsion technologies will be developed under contracts recently awarded by NASA's Glenn Research Center, Cleveland.
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 02.05.02 - Former Astronaut Nominated to Serve as NASA Deputy Administrator
NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe and the White House have announced the nomination of former NASA astronaut and Assistant Deputy Administrator, Major General Charles F. Bolden, U.S. Marine Corps, as NASA's next Deputy Administrator.
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 02.05.02 - Robotics Education Encouraged through Scholarships and a Regional Competition
They're off and running! Twenty-three teams of high school students located in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, West Virginia, and New York are starting to build remote-controlled robots to participate in the 2002 FIRST Robotics Competition.
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 02.06.02 - Ratvasky Honored for Aircraft Icing Research and Education
Thomas P. Ratvasky of the NASA Glenn Research Center has won the 2002 Losey Atmospheric Science Award for his "outstanding contributions to the understanding of iced airplane aerodynamics and the communication of this knowledge to the pilot community through educational materials."
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 02.07.02 - Thrusters Precisely Guide Satellite in Space First
A new generation of thrusters has been used to precisely guide and point a satellite in space, paving the way for use of this technology on future spacecraft to save weight, fuel and cut power consumption.
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 02.11.02 - Note to Editor: Focus is on the Future During Black History Month
February is Black History Month and NASA's Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, will recognize the contributions made by the African-American community during a special Heritage Month Event.
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 02.19.02 - Engineers and Scientists Go Back To School
Classroom assignment: Share your experiences and enthusiasm for the engineering profession with elementary school students to open their naturally curious minds to the wonders of science and math.
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 02.20.02 - Weekend Programs Commemorate 40th Anniversary of John Glenn's First Voyage
Today marks the 40th Anniversary of John Glenn's historic Mercury/Friendship 7 orbital flight during which he became the first American to orbit the Earth.
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 03.08.02 - Note to Editor: FIRST Buckeye Regional Robotics Competition
Media representatives are welcome to do interviews and videotape throughout the 3-day event.
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 03.15.02 - NASA Glenn Visitor Center To Distribute Ohio Quarter
Guests to NASA's Glenn Research Center Visitor Center will have the opportunity to obtain "Birthplace of Aviation Pioneers," the Ohio Quarter that will be officially released on Monday, March 18.
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 03.10.02 - NASA's Winning Satellite Wins Again
NASA's still high-flying Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS) has brought home another award.
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 03.22.02 - Reddy Becomes Chief of Aircraft Engine Research at NASA Glenn
Dhanireddy R. Reddy has been named chief of the Turbomachinery and Propulsion Systems Division at NASA's Glenn Research Center, Cleveland.
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 03.26.02 - Government and Commerical Inventions of the Year Selected
A device that insures the safety of the International Space Station and its crew and a miniature pump designed to help your heart have received NASA's government and commercial invention of the year awards.
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 03.27.02 - Women Demonstrate American Spirit During Heritage Month
Female forerunners of the past and present will be on hand as NASA's Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, celebrates this year's Women's History Month theme "Women Sustaining the American Spirit."
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 04.01.02 - U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Approves NASA Decommissioning Plan
The way has been paved for NASA's Glenn Research Center to proceed with the decommissioning of the closed Reactor Facility at its Plum Book Station in Perkins Township, near Sandusky, Ohio.
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 04.02.02 - 2002 CTO Fund Award Winners Announced by NASA Center
Imagine avoiding a hospital stay for a child by using a simple breath test to predict an impending asthma attack - made possible by a sensor originally developed to measure the emissions of aircraft engines.
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 04.03.02 - New Grants Prove That Education is a Common Language
The Minority University Research Education Division and Office of Equal Opportunity Programs at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC and the Minority University Research Education Programs Office at NASA's Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, award two grants to The University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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 04.15.02 - Female Leadership Honored with Federal Awards
Women's professional and personal advancement is important at NASA's Glenn Research Center, Cleveland. Glenn recently presented its Federal Women's Program Awards in supervisory and non-supervisory categories.
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 04.16.02 - Ideas For Mars Airplane Take Flight
A special program at NASA Glenn Research Center's Visitor Center, Cleveland encourages the public to explore the possibility by designing their interpretations of what a Mars airplane could look like.
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 04.18.02 - Exhibit Marks Partnership's First Anniversary
International civil space collaboration will be celebrated when a Space Cooperative Agreement between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Hungarian Space Agency marks its first anniversary this weekend.
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 04.19.02 - New Weather Information System to Take Flight
A new system, called the Pilot Weather Advisor (PWA), is now ready to hit the market later this year as an accurate real-time, in-flight weather information service.
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 04.23.02 - Innovative Competition Coins New Phrase: "Drop on a Dime"
High school students conducting experiments and analyzing data with aerospace engineers? It may sound like a preview for the newest teen movie, but that's exactly what will happen when NASA's Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, hosts the Dropping In a Microgravity Environment program.
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 04.25.02 - An Earth Week Lesson With Images From Space
In celebration of Earth Week 2002, hundreds of students across the country will be participating in a distance-learning program, Observing Earth from Space, hosted by NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.
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 05.04.02 - The Sky is the Limit at New Educational Facility
Students on the Eastern Shore of Virginia and Maryland, will soon be using the latest computer software and hardware as they learn how to design an aircraft and plot its flight or taking a virtual trip to the International Space Station.
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 05.21.02 - Diversity is a Unifying Force in Heritage Month Program
Note to Editor: "Unity in Freedom," this year's national Asian/Pacific Islander American Heritage Month theme, will be the foundation for NASA Glenn Research Center's recognition program on Wednesday, May 29.
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 05.23.02 - Aerospace Technology Improvements Garner NASA Awards
Six new technologies involving advanced space travel, aviation safety and more efficient airplane engines have been selected to receive awards for innovativeness in NASA's Turning Goals into Reality (TGIR) Awards Program.
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 05.31.02 - Symposium Gives Industry Material for Growth
High-performance materials research will yield high-performance results when industry leaders and senior technologists convene to learn how NASA can help them acquire and develop new technology through partnership.
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 05.31.02 - Valued Employees Recognized at Glenn
Twelve civil servant and support service contractor employees were recently honored at this year's Support Assistant/Clerical Awards ceremony at NASA's Glenn Research Center, Cleveland.
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 06.03.02 - Signing Ceremony Forges Biomedical Partnership
Media representatives are invited to witness the inaugural event that marks the initiation of interdisciplinary research in ten biomedical areas that will protect the health of astronauts and advance the state of the art of medical knowledge.
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 06.04.02 - Best New Products Recognized by Nortech
Technologies developed at NASA's Glenn Research Center will result in safer and less costly airplane engines as well as more environmentally friendly materials used in those engines.
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 06.05.02 - Biomedical Engineering Consortium Available via Satellite
NASA's Glenn Research Center, University Hospitals of Cleveland, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, the National Center for Microgravity Research and Case Western Reserve University will sign an agreement establishing the John Glenn Biomedical Engineering Consortium on Friday, June 7.
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 06.07.02 - NASA and Cleveland Biomedical Research Leaders Form Consortium
NASA's goal of protecting astronauts' health during long-term space missions has led to the planned infusion of $7.5 million into the Cleveland biomedical community over the next three years.
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 06.13.02 - Ohio Scientist's Proposal Is Out of This World
Dr. Geoffrey A. Landis, an aerospace engineer at NASA's Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, thinks he knows what it takes to explore Mars. And the Agency believes him.
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 06.20.02 - Media Advisory/Photo Opportunity
During the past three years, NASA's Glenn Research Center has been planning to decommission the closed Reactor Facility at its Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission recently approved NASA's Decommissioning Plan and the project is now underway.
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 06.25.02 - Glenn's Visitor Center Hosts Aerospace Transportation Day
At Glenn's Aerospace Transportation Day, guests will learn from Center experts about the history of aerospace transportation starting with the Wright Brothers and progressing to the next generation of flight and beyond.
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 06.26.02 - Employees Receive Astronaut Awards
On June 7, astronauts Lee M. Morin and Jerry L. Ross visited NASA's Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, to honor several employees.
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 06.27.02 - STS-107 Pre-Flight Briefings to be Held Tomorrow
On NASA's next scheduled mission, Space Shuttle Columbia will carry a crew of seven astronauts on a 16-day science research mission.
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 07.01.02 - Glenn Chosen To Lead Development of NEXT Ion Engine
NASA's Office of Space Science has awarded approximately $21 million to its Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, to develop a next generation ion propulsion system.
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 07.02.02 - New Chief of Human Resources at Glenn
Robyn N. Gordon has been named chief of the Office of Human Resources at NASA's Glenn Research Center, Cleveland. The appointment was recently announced by Center Director Donald J. Campbell.
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 07.03.02 - Strazisar Welcomed into Technical Society Fellowship
Dr. Anthony J. Strazisar, one of 12 senior scientists at NASA's Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, has been elected Fellow of The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
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 07.08.02 - Gonzalez-Sanabria Appointed To Senior Rank
Olga Gonzalez-Sanabria, director of the Systems Management Office at NASA's Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, has been named a member of the U.S. government's Senior Executive Service.
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 07.09.02 - Farther and Faster out of this World: Glenn Demonstrates High-Power Electric Propulsion
With power levels up to 72 kW and nearly 3 Newtons of thrust, NASA's Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, has designed, built and successfully tested a 50 kW-class Hall thruster.
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 07.10.02 - NASA Selects Ohio Engine Company for Development of an Accelerator
NASA's Glenn Research Center, Cleveland has selected General Electric Aircraft Engines, Evendale, Ohio, for the development of a Revolutionary Turbine Accelerator (RTA) technology demonstrator.
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 07.17.02 - Plum Brook Reactor Facility Decommissioning Workgroup Quarterly Meeting
The quarterly meeting of NASA Glenn Research Center's Plum Brook Station Closed Reactor Decommissioning Project Community Workgroup meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, July 23, from 7 to 9 p.m.
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 07.18.02 - Note to Editor: Reactor Facility Decommissioning Workgroup Quarterly Meeting
The Community Workgroup for the decommissioning of the closed Reactor Facility at NASA Glenn Research Center's Plum Brook Station will meet on Tuesday, July 23, from 7-9 p.m.
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 07.18.02 - Glenn Women of Color Win Top Honors for Achievements in Government and Defense
There's a Winner in You," the theme for the 2002 Women of Color in Government and Defense Technology Awards Conference, certainly holds true for several employees at NASA's Glenn Research Center, Cleveland.
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 07.22.02 - Julian M. Earls Named Glenn Research Center Deputy Director
Dr. Julian M. Earls has been selected as the new Deputy Director of NASA's Glenn Research Center, Cleveland.
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 07.23.02 - Note to Editor: Summer Camp Students take a Fantastic Flight
Students about to enter eighth and ninth grade in the fall in Lorain County are enjoying a week of aerospace activities at Fantastic Flight Week during the Summer Camp at Oberlin, July 22-26.
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 07.25.02 - "Cool" New Video on Icing For GA Pilots
Would you know what to do if the airplane was "iced up" and could no longer maintain altitude? This is one situation addressed by the new video, "Icing for General Aviation Pilots."
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 07.31.02 - NASA Awards $27 Million Cooperative Agreement to Continue Microgravity Research
NASA's Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, will continue its collaboration with the National Center for Microgravity Research on Fluids and Combustion (NCMR), Cleveland, by issuing a cooperative agreement for research and educational programs.
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 08.08.02 - Deputy for Aeronautics Selected at NASA Glenn
Dr. Jaiwon Shin has been named Deputy Director for Aeronautics at NASA's Glenn Research Center, Cleveland. This position also includes appointment to the U.S. government's Senior Executive Service, the highest management classification in the federal government.
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 08.13.02 - Virtual Propulsion System Meets Real-Time Diagnostic System
NASA researchers recently demonstrated successful real-time fault detection and isolation of a virtual main propulsion system at NASA's Glenn Research Center, Cleveland.
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 08.14.02 - Latest Microgravity Results and Future Plans Shared with Research Community
How can colloidal research in space help create more durable paints? The answer to this question is but one of the many findings that will be shared during the Sixth Microgravity Fluid Physics and Transport Phenomena Conference.
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 08.16.02 - Awards Honor NASA Glenn Employees
Recognition of more than 170 of its valuable workforce members was the order of the day at an awards ceremony held at NASA's Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, on August 2.
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 08.28.02 - Teachers Attend "Summer School" at NASA Workshop
Twenty-six educators from schools in fourteen states recently attended a NASA Educator Workshop (NEW) at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.
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 09.03.02 - Glenn Innovations Named Two of Year's Most Significant Products
Art restoration and computer simulation may not be the first things that come to mind when aerospace research is mentioned, but work conducted at NASA's Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, is changing these perceptions.
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 09.04.02 - Turbomachinery Chief Named to Senior Executive Service
Dr. Dhanireddy R. Reddy, chief, Turbomachinery and Propulsion Systems Division at NASA's Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, has been appointed to the Senior Executive Service, the highest echelon of federal employment.
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 09.25.02 - Unity, Faith and Diversity Yield Strength for Hispanic Heritage Month
NASA's Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, is celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with a lively activity on Wednesday, September 25 from 9:30 - 11:30 a.m.
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 09.25.02 - NASA Workshop Helped Teachers Prepare for New School Year
Fourteen middle school educators from five Northeast Ohio school districts participated in an intensive teacher workshop at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland during the summer.
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 09.26.02 - Future Scientists and Engineers Encouraged to Submit Microgravity Proposals Now
NASA's Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, wants to find those high school students that have what it takes to create a science experiment that can be tested in one of its drop towers.
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 09.30.02 - Studies Aim to Reduce Airplane Fuel Flammability
NASA is developing technology to help prevent airliner fuel tank fires with the help of four contracts awarded by NASA's Glenn Research Center, Cleveland.
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 10.01.02 - New Book Highlights Unique NASA Facility
One of Cleveland's historic landmarks, unique in the world, is NASA Glenn Research Center's Icing Research Tunnel (IRT). "We Freeze to Please", the slogan for the IRT, is now also the title of a new book, the latest addition to the NASA History Series.
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 10.10.02 - Plum Brook Reactor Decommissioning Update at Community Information Session
Following are 10, 20, and 30-second public service announcements about a Community Information Session on October 16 to update the public about the Decommissioning of the closed Reactor Facility at Plum Brook Station.
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 10.10.02 - Plum Brook Reactor Facility Decommissioning Update Scheduled
The Fourth Annual Community Information Session on the decommissioning of the closed Reactor Facility at NASA Glenn Research Center's Plum Brook Station is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, October 16, from 7:30 to 9 p.m.
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 10.10.02 - Three Diverse Contributions Recognized Under Space Act
Enabling speedy and efficient exploration of space as well as diagnosing problems in the human body are the areas of technology advancements at NASA's Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, that have received an exceptional NASA Space Act Award this year.
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 10.17.02 - Public Invited to Presentation by NASA Astronaut Carl Walz at Glenn Visitor Center
The public is invited to join International Space Station Expedition Four Astronaut and Cleveland native Carl Walz (Col. USAF) as he shares his mission experiences during a presentation at NASA's Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio.
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 10.18.02 - Note to Editor: NASA Astronauts Carl Walz and Dan Bursch-Space Station Expedition Four Crewmembers - To Visit Glenn
Cleveland native Astronaut Carl Walz (Col. USAF) and Daniel Bursch (Captain, USN) who served as Flight Engineers Expedition Four on the International Space Station, will visit NASA's Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, Monday, October 21.
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 10.23.02 - Note to Editor: Entrepreneurial Spirit Stimulated
Former NASA employees who have successfully commercialized Glenn technologies and started their own high tech companies in Cleveland will kick off a series of discussions designed to achieve a more business-oriented culture at NASA's Glenn Research Center.
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 10.23.02 - Note to Editor: NASA Glenn Joins Ranks with Historic Tuskegee University
A historic event will take place on October 30 when NASA's Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio enters into a Space Act Agreement with Tuskegee University, in Tuskegee Ala. for the purpose of establishing a safety and assurance technologies program.
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 10.28.02 - Note to Editor: Internet in Space Demonstration
Media are invited to witness a live demonstration of the latest in secure mobile networking technology on Wednesday, November 6, at the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) station located at the East Ninth Street Pier in downtown Cleveland.
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 10.31.02 - Maryland Security Firm Selected at NASA Glenn
NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio has selected Knight Protective Services, Inc. of Capitol Heights, Md. to provide on-site security services.
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 11.15.02 - Young Astronauts To Test Skills
Hundreds of students will once again make their annual pilgrimage to NASA's Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, for the tenth annual Young Astronaut Day.
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 11.25.02 - Set and Forget Mobile Networking Demonstrated
A seamless and secure interoperability of Internet communications among moving vehicles was successfully demonstrated aboard the U.S. Coast Guard's Cutter Neah Bay on November 6.
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 12.16.02 - Local Students to Compete in State Robotics Tournament
Middle school students from the Science Engineering Mathematics and Aerospace Academy (SEMAA) program at Cuyahoga Community College, along with teams from Garret Morgan Middle School, Thomas Jefferson Middle School, Marian Seltzer Elementary School, and Joseph Gallagher Middle School, will compete in the 2002 FIRST LEGO League State Tournament.
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 12.16.02 - NASA Glenn to Mark Wright Brothers' First Flight Anniversary
On Tuesday, December 17, the 99th anniversary of the Wright brothers' first powered flight, students from Westlake High School will have the opportunity to step back in time to the early 1900's with Orville and Wilbur Wright.
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