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'' MEDIA ADVISORY M16-036'' '''International Hacking Challenge Comes to California for Main Event''' Media are invited to attend the global main stage event for NASA’s fifth annual International Space Apps Challenge, April 22-24 at Cross Campus in Pasadena, California, with NASA Astronaut Doug Wheelock, Chief Information Officer Renee Wynn, Deputy Chief Scientist Gale Allen, and Chief ...

'' MEDIA ADVISORY M16-038'' '''NASA Featured Prominently at USA Science and Engineering Festival April 15-17''' Explore outer space and our Earth with NASA at the USA Science and Engineering Festival, April 15-17 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, located at 801 Mt. Vernon Place NW in Washington. NASA scientists and engineers will be on hand at the agency’s interactive and ...

'''Mission Manager Update: Kepler Remains Stable as Health Check Continues''' The Kepler spacecraft remains stable as the process of returning it to science continues. The cause of the anomaly, first reported on April 8, remains under investigation. Since Sunday morning the spacecraft has remained safely "parked" in a stable pointed configuration called Point Rest State. In this state, fuel ...

'''NASA's Fermi Telescope Poised to Pin Down Gravitational Wave Sources''' On Sept. 14, waves of energy traveling for more than a billion years gently rattled space-time in the vicinity of Earth. The disturbance, produced by a pair of merging black holes, was captured by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) facilities in Hanford, Washington, and Livingston, Louisiana. ...

''MEDIA ADVISORY M16-043'' '''NASA to Discuss Latest Developments in Solar Electric Propulsion for Future Deep Space Exploration''' NASA will host a media teleconference at 11:30 a.m. EDT Thursday, April 21, to discuss the latest advances in the agency’s development of solar electric propulsion (SEP) for deep space exploration. Tuesday’s award of a contract to Aerojet Rocketdyne, Inc. for the ...

''RELEASE 16-045'' '''NASA Seeks Proposals for Deep Space Habitation Prototypes''' NASA is soliciting proposals for the development of prototypes for deep space habitats that will give astronauts a place to call home during long-duration missions supporting the agency’s Journey to Mars. The solicitation, Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships-2 (NextSTEP-2), is a follow-on to the ...

'''Microscopic "Timers" Reveal Likely Source of Galactic Space Radiation''' Most of the cosmic rays that we detect at Earth originated relatively recently in nearby clusters of massive stars, according to new results from NASA's Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) spacecraft. ACE allowed the research team to determine the source of these cosmic rays by making the first observations of a very ...

'''Mission Manager Update: Kepler Recovered and Returned to the K2 Mission''' The Kepler spacecraft has been recovered and, as of 8:30 a.m. PDT today, it is back on the job as the K2 mission searching for exoplanets—planets beyond our solar system. The team began the process of returning the spacecraft to science late on Tuesday. The process involved a succession of steps over the course of the ...

''MEDIA ADVISORY M16-045'' '''NASA Puts Dallas Students on Phone with Orbiting Astronauts''' Students in Dallas will have the opportunity to speak with two astronauts living and working aboard the International Space Station at 11:15 a.m. EDT Tuesday, April 26. The 20-minute, Earth-to-space call will air live on NASA Television and the agency’s website. The event will be hosted by the School ...

''MEDIA ADVISORY M16-046'' '''NASA Dedicates Facility to Mathematician, Presidential Medal Winner''' NASA will commemorate the many contributions of retired mathematician Katherine Johnson to America’s space program during a building dedication ceremony at 2 p.m. EDT Thursday, May 5 -- the 55th anniversary of Alan Shepard's historic rocket launch and splash down, which Johnson helped make ...

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