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NASA Chooses High Tech Projects For Development
11.23.09 - NASA has selected for development 368 small business innovation projects that include research to minimize aging of aircraft, new techniques for suppressing fires on spacecraft and advanced transmitters for deep space communications.
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Science Magazines Honor Cutting-Edge NASA Programs
11.20.09 - NASA's revolutionary planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has been honored with the 2009 Best of What's New Grand Award from Popular Science Magazine and a 2009 Breakthrough Award from Popular Mechanics Magazine.
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NASA Supercomputer Ranks Among World's Fastest
11.18.09 - NASA’s premiere supercomputer located at Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., has garnered the sixth spot on the Top500 list of the world's most powerful computers.
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NASA Develops Algae Bioreactor as a Sustainable Energy Source
11.18.09 - As a clean energy alternative, NASA invented an algae photo-bioreactor that grows algae in municipal wastewater to produce biofuel and a variety of other products.
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NASA's LCROSS Confirms Water in Lunar Crater
11.13.09 - Preliminary data from NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, indicates the mission successfully uncovered water in a permanently shadowed lunar crater. The discovery opens a new chapter in our understanding of the moon.
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Ames to Host Live Broadcast of Space Shuttle Launch
11.12.09 - News media and the public are invited to observe the live televised broadcast of the launch of STS-129, space shuttle Atlantis, on Monday, Nov. 16 in the Exploration Center at NASA Ames.
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NASA Ames Co-Hosts 'Random Hacks of Kindness'
11.10.09 - News media and the public are invited to witness the first step in building a global community dedicated to solving disaster relief challenges through technology at the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, Calif.
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NASA Briefs Preliminary Plume Findings From Moon Mission
11.10.09 - NASA will hold a news conference Friday to talk about early science results from its successful moon impacting mission, the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS.
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NASA Reproduces a Building Block of Life in Laboratory
11.05.09 - NASA scientists studying the origin of life have reproduced uracil, a key component of our hereditary material, in the laboratory.
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Valley View Elementary Students to Test-Drive Rovers
11.05.09 - Fifth-grade students from Valley View Elementary School, Pleasanton, Calif., will experience robotic exploration by test-driving remote-controlled rovers around a student-designed obstacle course on Friday, Nov. 6, 2009.
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Kepler Mission Manager Update, Nov. 5, 2009
11.05.09 - Kepler completed another science data download over October 18-19.
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NASA Showcases 'Green' Missions at SC09 Conference
11.04.09 - Five NASA centers join forces this month to showcase ³green² science, engineering, and technology achievements at SC09, the leading international conference on high-performance computing, networking, storage, and analysis.
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Ames Contributes to Ares I-X Rocket Flight Test
10.27.09 - A team led by NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., developed software that contributed to today's successful flight of NASA's Ares I-X test rocket.
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NASA Hosts Evolution of Astrobiology Lecture
10.27.09 - Astrobiologists searching for life in the universe, believe that Darwin’s vision of natural selection promises to profoundly alter and expand the notion of life and its origins.
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NASA, MSGI Partner for Solar Energy and Nanotechnology
10.27.09 - Today NASA announced under the terms of two Space Act Agreements, it will partner with MSGI Security Solutions Inc., San Francisco, to advance solar cell technology and develop nano-chemical sensors.
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Ames Celebrates 70th Anniversary in Mountain View
10.26.09 - Celebrating 70 years of innovative research and development, NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., will showcase its history in downtown Mountain View, Calif.
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NASA Scientist to Demo Cell Phone Chemical Sensor
10.26.09 - News media are invited to see a demonstration of new technology that would bring chemical sensing capabilities to cell phones on Oct. 27, 2009 at San Diego State University Regional Technology Center.
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NASA App Now Available from App Store
10.23.09 - A NASA App for the iPhone and iPod touch is available free of charge at the App Store from Apple.
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Teams Win at NASA National Lunar Robotics Competition
10.19.09 - Nineteen teams pushed their robot competitors to the limit and three teams claimed a total of $750,000 in NASA prizes at this year's Regolith Excavation Challenge on Oct. 17-18, 2009.
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NASA'S LCROSS Captures All Phases of Centaur Impact
10.16.09 - NASA’s Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) was a smashing success, returning tantalizing data about the Centaur impact before the spacecraft itself impacted the surface of the moon.