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... Viking , and suggested that the press representatives "ought to prepare yourselves from an educational point of view about all the experiments other than just the biology." The first question ... energy sources. An experiment built by Goddard Space Flight Center with assistance from the Calif. Institute of Technology would measure emissions and absorptions of diffuse x-rays and correlate ...

... of its mission up to lyr. It would operate in 2 modes, pointing and scanning: its batteries would point continuously at the sun as the vehicle moved 1°/day in the ecliptic ... Enterprise Space Shuttle Enterprise made its first free flight at Edwards Air Force Base in Calif. with a "flawless landing" on a runway in the Mojave desert 53min 51sec after taking ... speed of 170mph. The orbiter had touched down a mile in front of the aiming point, because Haise underestimated its glide capability; it had rolled another 2mi before stopping. For this ...

... radar on south Vandenberg AFB , the FPQ-14 radar at Kaena Point, Hawaii, and the FPQ-6 radar at Pillar Point, Calif. In addition, SAMTEC Operations Control personnel at Vandenberg had supported the ... 6mi from the laser; interim air-to-ground tests, evaluating aircraft ability to acquire and point the laser transmitter toward a groundbased beacon laser; and full demonstration of the air-to ...

... NASA centers are participating in the program this year. Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif.; Kennedy Space Center in Florida; and Langley are hosting workshops. Johnson Space Center in Houston ... taken nearly four years to get to this point," said Robert Mase, Dawn project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "Our latest tests and check-outs show that ...

... aircraft is based at the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif. NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., manages the SOFIA science and mission operations in cooperation with the ... T. Kranz Intermediate School, El Monte, Calif. East Hartford-Glastonbury Magnet School, East Hartford, Conn. Ellen Ochoa Learning Center, Cudahy, Calif. Ferndale Middle School, High Point, N.C. Forest Lake Elementary Technology Magnet ...

... to satellite data, an estimated 97 percent of the ice sheet surface thawed at some point in mid-July. Researchers have not yet determined whether this extensive melt event will affect ... sharing data. ''RELEASE: 12-255 NASA MARS ORBITER REPOSITIONED TO PHONE HOME MARS LANDING'' PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has successfully adjusted its orbital location to be in a ...

... space. Future configurations could carry science instruments and other exploration payloads to destinations including Lagrange points, the moon, asteroids, and ultimately Mars. "This is a no-cost examination of the ... safety, environmental, and medical support services at the agency's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. The contract has a maximum value of $55 million. This is a firm-fixed- ...

... arm," said Jennifer Trosper, Curiosity mission manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. Two science instruments -- a camera called Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) that can take close ... to position its tools and instruments. Curiosity moved the arm to predetermined "teach points" Sept. 11, including points above each of three inlet ports where it will later drop samples of soil ...

... Warren Brown of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. Our measurements point directly to the Milky Way center. Brown, a member of the Hubble team that ... Tomorrow After School Enrichment Program, Los Angeles Micro-Enterprise Charter Academy, Long Beach, Calif. Washington Middle School, Pasadena, Calif. Foshay Learning Center, Los Angeles To view the event and for NASA ...

... were kept cold by the spacecraft's orbit, which is around a stable point called the second Lagrange point about 1.5 million kilometers (930,000 miles) from Earth. This location gave ... Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. "You cannot see the polar regions very well from an equatorial orbit. Observing the planet from different vantage points reveals more about the cloud layers ...

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