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Features and News

Kepler Mission Manager Update, Nov. 23, 2009

11.23.09

Kepler experienced a Safe mode event on Nov. 18, 2009.

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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 ...

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Science Magazines Honor Cutting-Edge NASA Programs

Kepler's First Light image. NASA's Kepler mission has taken its first images of the star-rich sky where it will soon begin hunting for planets like Earth.

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 ...

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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.