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... a new generation of technology leaders kicks off at 10:30 a.m. EST Saturday, Jan. 7. NASA, the largest sponsor of the FIRST Robotics Competition, and its centers across the ...

... it is only one-eighth-inch thick in most areas. Yet, it withstands more than 6.5 million pounds of thrust during liftoff and ascent. The tank is the only shuttle ... component of the shuttle's twin solid rocket boosters, generates an average thrust of 2.6 million pounds and is just over 126 feet long and 12 feet in diameter. -end ...

Guggenheim Safe Aircraft Competition prize was awarded to Curtiss Tanager, which featured practical wing flaps and leading-edge Handley-Page slots.

President Eisenhower in his state-of-the-Union message noted the increasing importance of long-range missiles and nuclear-powered aircraft. $1.275 billion was scheduled for fiscal year 1957 production of guided missiles, with an additional $1.43 billion for military research and development.

“Into Frontiers Beyond Earth” Scott Crossfield in pressure suit in Life Magazine

In a staff report of the House Select Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration, Wernher von Braun of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency predicted manned circumlunar flight within the next eight to ten years and a manned lunar landing and return mission a few years thereafter. Administrator T. Keith Glennan , Deputy Administrator Hugh L. Dryden , Abe Silverstein , John P. ...

NASA selects 101 of its high-performing interns and fellows for the agency's Student Ambassador Program. The students represent NASA at a variety of education and outreach events at schools and universities to help inspire future students interested in science, engineering, mathematics and technology, or STEM, opportunities. The new ambassadors represent 31 states and 64 different universities. ...

''Release C16-001'' '''NASA Awards Contract for NASA Enterprise Applications Competency Center Operations''' NASA has awarded a contract to Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) of McLean, Virginia, to provide all services necessary to operate the NASA Enterprise Applications Competency Center (NEACC). The NEACC, located at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in ...

''RELEASE 18-001'' '''NASA Remembers Agency’s Most Experienced Astronaut''' The following is a statement from acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot on the passing of John Young, who died Friday night following complications from pneumonia at the age of 87. Young is the only agency astronaut to go into space as part of the Gemini, Apollo and space shuttle programs, and the first to fly ...

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