• NASA Ames Rocks With the Stars at Science and Culture Fest

    Updated: 2010-09-03 01:24:33
    NASA Ames Rocks With the Stars at Science and Culture Fest

  • GLONASS M Navigation Triplets Launched Successfully by Proton M

    Updated: 2010-09-03 01:24:33
    GLONASS M Navigation Triplets Launched Successfully by Proton M

  • Northrop Grumman Employee Awarded NASA Silver Snoopy Award

    Updated: 2010-09-03 01:24:33
    Northrop Grumman Employee Awarded NASA Silver Snoopy Award

  • NASA Selects Investigations For First Mission To Encounter The Sun

    Updated: 2010-09-03 01:24:33
    NASA has begun development of a mission to visit and study the sun closer than ever before. The unprecedented project, named Solar Probe Plus, is slated to launch no later than 2018.

  • Joint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity 2 September 2010

    Updated: 2010-09-03 01:24:33
    Joint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity 2 September 2010

  • Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee Open Meeting 7 Oct 2010

    Updated: 2010-09-03 01:24:33
    Mr. Philip McAlister of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Commercial Crew Transportation office has been invited to speak.

  • NOAA SATOPS Morning Report: Thursday, September 02, 2010

    Updated: 2010-09-03 01:24:33
    NOAA SATOPS Morning Report: Thursday, September 02, 2010

  • New NASA HD App for iPad With Expanded Content Available Free

    Updated: 2010-09-03 01:24:33
    NASA has unveiled NASA App HD, a new mobile application designed for the iPad. The application is available free of charge at the App Store from Apple.

  • NASA Announces 2010 SPHERES Zero-Robotics Challenge

    Updated: 2010-09-03 01:24:33
    NASA and MIT are challenging high school teams to design software to program small satellites aboard the International Space Station. The competition centers on the Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites, or SPHERES.

  • NASA, Newseum Invite Media To Discover And Encounter Comets

    Updated: 2010-09-03 01:24:33
    NASA, Newseum Invite Media To Discover And Encounter Comets

  • NASA Back to School Event Postponed Due to Weather

    Updated: 2010-09-03 01:24:33
    NASA Back to School Event Postponed Due to Weather

  • 50 Years After NASA Marshall's Dedication, Center To Honor 'Work of Generations' at Commemorative Event Sept. 8

    Updated: 2010-09-03 01:24:33
    50 Years After NASA Marshall's Dedication, Center To Honor 'Work of Generations' at Commemorative Event Sept. 8

  • NASA Astronaut Jerry Ross Visits Elkhart County Sept. 9

    Updated: 2010-09-03 01:24:33
    NASA Astronaut Jerry Ross Visits Elkhart County Sept. 9

  • NASA iPad App Ignores Important Solar System Objects and Missions

    Updated: 2010-09-02 18:13:04
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  • Buzz Says Send English Speakers to Mars

    Updated: 2010-09-02 16:13:47
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  • Making Space Food

    Updated: 2010-09-02 15:41:06
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  • A Canadian Space Station Commander (Update)

    Updated: 2010-09-02 13:08:20
    Home SpaceRef OnOrbit SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology GeneRef Newsletter Sign In This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support A Canadian Space Station Commander Update By Keith Cowing on September 2, 2010 9:08 AM 1 Comment Canadian Space Agency to Announce Milestone Astronaut Mission Tomorrow SpaceRef Canada It is expected that the Canadian Space Agency will announce that veteran Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield will be introduced as the first Canadian Commander of an expedition to the International Space Station . Earlier this year we reported that Hadfield would most likely fly to the

  • NASA Ranked #5 in Federal Government Workplaces

    Updated: 2010-09-02 10:59:48
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  • ESO brings starburst galaxy into focus

    Updated: 2010-09-01 00:00:00
    NGC 4666's vigorous star formation is probably the result of gravitational interactions with neighboring galaxies.

  • NASA and ATK successfully test five-segment solid rocket motor

    Updated: 2010-09-01 00:00:00
    Despite the cancellation of the Constellation program, there is still a strong chance that the booster could play a part in future launch vehicles.

  • Video of Today's Solid Rocket Motor Test

    Updated: 2010-08-31 16:47:58
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  • Armadillo Aerospace and Masten Space Systems win NASA Experimental Space Vehicle Contracts

    Updated: 2010-08-31 00:05:20
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  • NASA Glenn tests alternative green rocket engine

    Updated: 2010-08-31 00:00:00
    The non-toxic oxygen and methane propellant combination has the potential for greater engine performance.

  • Upcoming STA Event

    Updated: 2010-08-30 19:27:21
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  • India back to the Moon in 2013 with Orbiter, Lander and Rover

    Updated: 2010-08-30 18:17:31
    India Announces Instrument Suite for Chandrayaan-2 Moon Orbiter, Lander and Rover, SpaceRef "The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) today announced the suite of instruments for its second mission to the moon after it's first orbiter Chandrayaan-1 was successful in its mission. The second mission is scheduled to be launched on India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota in 2013."

  • SpaceX Asks Requests October 23rd as Potential Launch Date for Falcon 9 with Dragon

    Updated: 2010-08-30 17:50:29
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  • Public Invited to Participate on Cool NASA Historical Project

    Updated: 2010-08-30 17:38:04
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  • Shrinking atmospheric layer linked to low levels of solar radiation

    Updated: 2010-08-30 00:00:00
    Research indicates that the Sun's magnetic cycle, which produces differing numbers of sunspots over an approximately 11-year cycle, may vary more than previously thought.

  • Mars' mysterious elongated crater

    Updated: 2010-08-27 00:00:00
    A new image shows the elliptical depression with unprecedented clarity.

  • Distant star's sound waves reveal cycle similar to the Sun's

    Updated: 2010-08-27 00:00:00
    Studying many stars with stellar seismology could help scientists better understand how magnetic activity cycles can differ from star to star, as well as the processes behind such cycles.

  • WISE captures the Unicorn's Rose

    Updated: 2010-08-26 00:00:00
    The Rosette Nebula is a huge star-forming region in our Milky Way Galaxy.

  • Pulverized planet dust may lie around double stars

    Updated: 2010-08-24 00:00:00
    Scientists believe that planetary collisions are kicking up fresh dust.

  • Richest planetary system discovered

    Updated: 2010-08-24 00:00:00
    Scientists believe there are as many as seven planets orbiting this Sun-like star.

  • Press Release: Planetary Society Asks Congress to Refocus NASA Plan

    Updated: 2010-08-19 08:00:00
    On the Planetary Society web site: Planetary Society Asks Congress to Refocus NASA Plan

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