NASA has named physicist and former astronaut John Grunsfeld as the new associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at the agency’s headquarters in Washington. Grunsfeld will take the reins of the office effective Jan. 4, 2012. He succeeds Ed Weiler, who retired from NASA on Sept. 30.
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For three days this week, a small part of NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston will simulate a human mission to an asteroid. Reporters are invited to observe what the mission might entail.
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NASA’s car-sized Curiosity rover has begun monitoring space radiation during its 8-month trip from Earth to Mars. The research will aid in planning for future human missions to the Red Planet.
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NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found bright veins of a mineral, apparently gypsum, deposited by water.
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NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new region between our solar system and interstellar space. Data obtained from Voyager over the last year reveal this new region to be a kind of cosmic purgatory.
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NASA researchers will present new findings on a wide range of Earth and space science topics at the 2011 fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
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NASA has elected to exercise the first of two available contract options for procurement of an additional Tracking Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) from Boeing Satellite Systems, Inc. of El Segundo, Calif.
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NASA began a historic voyage to Mars with the Nov. 26 launch of the Mars Science Laboratory.
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NASA has updated the news conferences, events and operating hours for the press site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Fla., for the agency’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity rover launch.
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News conferences, events and operating hours for the Press Site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Fla., are set for the agency’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity rover launch.
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