April 2nd 2007 PDT
Monday, April 2, 2007 Metals with Memory Could Fix Dents Engineers have concocted metals that “remember” their original shapes and with a little heat can snap back after being crumpled or dented. Houses of the Future Could Be Made from Trash New building blocks made of waste products could revolutionize home and office con ...Continue Reading
March 31st 2007 PDT
Friday, March 30, 2007 Earth's Inner Temperature Taken: It's Hot! Scientists have taken the temperature of Earth’s innards, more than a thousand miles beneath the surface, and found that the mercury there soars to about 6,650 degrees Fahrenheit. New Coating Keeps Glass Clean and Fog-Free The stuff attracts water and repels oil, so glasses ...Continue Reading
March 31st 2007 PDT
March 30, 2007 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0602 Paul Foerman Stennis Space Center, Bay St. Louis, Miss. 228-688-3333 CONTRACT RELEASE: C07-17 NASA AWARDS CONTRACT FOR HARDWARE ASSURANCE TESTING BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. - On Friday, NASA announced the selection of Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne, Inc., of Canoga Park, Calif., to provide hardware assurance testing at NASA's Stennis Space Center. The estimated total value of the contract is $80 million. The cost-plus-award-fee contract is for a one ...Continue Reading
March 30th 2007 PDT
 * DESTINATIONS:* *News* *|* *SpaceFlight* *|* *Science/Astronomy* *|* *SETI* *|* *Space Business News* *March 30, 2007*  *TOP STORY* *posted: March 30, 2007 01:02 pm EDT* *New Green Comet Set for April Show*A new comet has recently been discovered, and like the brilliant Comet McNaught from earlier this year, this latest discovery belongs to an Australian: Comet Lovejoy (C/2007 E2). Read More * MISS ...Continue Reading
March 30th 2007 PDT
March 30, 2007 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 RELEASE: 07-79 NASA ANNOUNCES FIRST LICHTEN INTERNSHIP AWARD WINNER WASHINGTON - NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, in cooperation with the American Helicopter Society International (AHS), selected Eric Greenwood II from the University of Maryland, University Park, as its first NASA AHS Lichten Internship Award winner. Greenwood was selected based on his paper "Helicopter External Noise Radiation in Turning Flight: Theor ...Continue Reading
March 30th 2007 PDT
March 29, 2007 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0602 James Hartsfield Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-4934 STATUS REPORT: SS07-15 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION STATUS REPORT: SS07-15 HOUSTON - The Expedition 14 crew of the International Space Station continued preparations for the April arrival of a new station crew by boarding their Soyuz TMA-9 craft and taking a 24-minute flight from one station docking port to another. Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin guided the Soyuz away from the Earth-f ...Continue Reading
March 30th 2007 PDT
March 29, 2007 Dwayne Brown/Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726/0668 Cynthia O'Carroll Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-4647 CONTRACT RELEASE: C07-16 NASA SELECTS FIRMS FOR SEWP IV CONTRACTS WASHINGTON - NASA has awarded 45 commercial, fixed price, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contracts to 37 vendors under the Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement IV (SEWP IV). The principal purpose of the SEWP IV contracts is to provide customers with state-of-the-art com ...Continue Reading
March 29th 2007 PDT
NASA Science News for March 29, 2007 NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has observed some spectacular Northern Lights on the planet Jupiter. The data may help researchers solve the mysteries of the biggest auroras in the solar system. FULL STORY at http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/29mar_bigauroras.htm?list882224 Check out our RSS feed at http://science.nasa.gov/rss.xml! You are currently subscribed to snglist as: nasa_reports@aus-city.com. This is a free service. To unsubscribe click here: http://lyris.msfc.nasa ...Continue Reading
March 29th 2007 PDT
March 29, 2007 Allard Beutel Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4769 James Hartsfield Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 RELEASE: 07-78 NASA ASTRONAUT TO RUN BOSTON MARATHON IN SPACE WASHINGTON - NASA astronaut Suni Williams will go faster than anyone has ever gone in the Boston Marathon. She will run the famed race in April as an official entrant from 210 miles above Earth aboard the International Space Station. This will be the first time an astronaut in space will be an official participant in a mar ...Continue Reading
March 29th 2007 PDT
Thursday, March 29, 2007 Study Reveals Why We Get Distracted So Easily Distractions are processed by the brain more quickly than things we try to concentrate on. Charge: Carbon Dioxide Hogs Global Warming Stage There are other chemical culprits causing climate change, and scientists now urge more attention be paid to them. Contro ...Continue Reading
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