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Our day-to-day lives exist in what physicists would call an electrically neutral environment. Desks, books, chairs and bodies don’t generally carry electricity and they don’t stick to magnets. But life on Earth is substantially different from, well, almost everywhere else. Beyond Earth’s protective atmosphere and extending all the way through… Read more“The Electric Atmosphere: Plasma Is Next NASA Science Target”

A heat shield partially made from Martian or lunar soil, lighting that lets plants grow in space and specialized containers that keep astronauts from getting infected by biological experiments were some of the ideas shown to NASA’s chief technologist during his two-day visit to laboratories at Kennedy Space Center in… Read more“Chief Technologist Praises Kennedy Advances”

    Scott Braun is the Hurricane Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) mission principal investigator and a research meteorologist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Scott studies hurricanes from the inside out. HS3 is a five-year mission specifically targeted to investigate hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean basin. In… Read more“Interview With Scott Braun About NASA’s Upcoming Hurricane Campaign”

Airplane passengers can count on their flights being safer and more reliable across North America now that scientists have begun using data determined with NASA formulas to get a more accurate representation of clouds in weather forecast models.”Clouds are an important factor to consider when planning a flight,” says Patrick… Read more“Flights Safer and More Reliable with NASA Cloud Modeling Technique”

Updated Aug. 1, 2012 – 6:42pm PDT PASADENA, Calif. – The public is invited to tune in for a series of news briefings from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., for the upcoming landing of NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars. NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission will deliver the nearly… Read more“NASA Announces News Activities for Mars Landing”

NASA’s Space Launch System Passes Major Agency Review, Moves to Preliminary Design An artist rendering of the various configurations of NASA’s Space Launch System. (NASA) View large image An expanded view of an artist rendering of the 70-metric-ton configuration of NASA’s Space Launch System. (NASA) View large image An expanded… Read more“NASA’s Space Launch System Passes Major Agency Review, Moves to Preliminary Design”

Ride’s official astronaut portrait. She joined the astronaut corps in 1978. Credit: NASA Ride floats on the shuttle Challenger’s mid-deck during her historic STS-7 flight in 1983. Credit: NASA ›View Photo Gallery In a space agency filled with trailblazers, Sally K. Ride was a pioneer of a different sort. The… Read more“NASA Offers Condolences on the Passing of Pioneering Astronaut Sally Ride”