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Features and News
Northern California Astronaut to Fly on Next Shuttle
NASA Ames Research Center Engineer Honored
Fifteen systems engineers from across NASA graduated from the first class of the Systems Engineering Leadership Development Program (SELDP) in June 2009.
NASA and International Space University Hold Moon Panel
A panel of robotics engineers, lunar scientists and spacecraft flight directors will gather at NASA's Ames Research Center on Aug. 11, 2009 to discuss current scientific investigation being done of, o...
More Features and News
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Mars Rovers' Work is Children's Play
08.07.09 - To educate the next generation of explorers, NASA took its science and robots on the road.
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NASA's Kepler Spies Changing Phases on a Distant World
08.06.09 - NASA's new exoplanet-hunting Kepler space telescope has detected the atmosphere of a known giant gas planet, demonstrating the telescope's extraordinary scientific capabilities.
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NASA Ames Celebrates 70th Anniversary with New Web Site
08.05.09 - NASA Ames Research Center is launching a 70th Anniversary Web site this week showcasing seven decades of ground-breaking research and development.
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NASA Selects First Innovation Ambassadors
08.04.09 - NASA's Innovative Partnerships Program, in coordination with the agency's Office of the Chief Engineer and Office of Human Capital Management, today announced the selection of the 2009 Innovation Ambassadors.
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NASA To Hold Briefing about Kepler's Early Science Results
08.03.09 - NASA will hold a media briefing on Thursday, Aug. 6, at 11 a.m. PDT, to discuss early science results of the Kepler mission. Kepler is the first spacecraft with the ability to find Earth-size planets orbiting stars like our sun in a zone where liquid water could exist.
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NASA Studies Cellulose for Food and Biofuel Production
07.31.09 - For long-duration space missions, astronauts someday will grow plants for food and the air they breathe, while transforming inedible parts of the plants into useful resources, such as biofuels, food, and chemicals.
Spotlight on Ames
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70 Years
NASA Ames celebrates its platinum anniversary.
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Greenspace
Leveraging NASA for a greener Earth.
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ISU SSP 2009
The International Space University Space Studies Program 2009 is here at Ames this summer.
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LCROSS
NASA's Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite.
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Kepler
NASA's search for habitable planets.
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Hangar One
Latest information about Hangar One
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SOFIA
SOFIA is an airborne observatory that will complement the Hubble, Spitzer, Herschel and James Webb space telescopes, as well as major Earth-based telescopes.
