MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. – Computer programs that are used to define safety margins for fiery spacecraft re-entries and help detect planets outside our solar system are co-winners of NASA's 2007 Software of the Year Award.
Swimmers from around the world are setting world and Olympic records in Beijing this month and most are doing it wearing a swimsuit made of fabric tested at NASA.
"The near-limitless nature of space is mirrored in the profusion of good space- and astronomy-related Web sites."
NASA launch will evaluate how a nanosatellite spacecraft and its payload performs.
One of the priorities of the GLAST Burst Monitor science team has been to validate burst location information provided by the telescope.
When astronauts visit the Hubble Space Telescope in 2009 for its final servicing mission, they will be facing a task that has no precedence – performing on-orbit 'surgery' on two ailing science instruments that reside inside the telescope.
Champion swimmer Michael Phelps knows swimsuits; NASA researcher Steve Wilkinson knows drag reduction. Put them together, and you get record-breaking Olympic trials.
NASA has awarded a contract to Oceaneering International Inc. of Houston, to develop a new spacesuit that future astronauts will wear to the moon.
Later this summer NASA will attempt to deploy and operate the first spacecraft in low Earth orbit propelled only by the power of sunlight.