NASA
- Formed: July 29, 1958
- Location: Kennedy Space Center
- Related: Space Force
- Status: Active
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NASA Scientists Control Robotic Arm With Kinect And Oculus Rift
Robots in space — two great tastes that taste great together. They might go to Mars ahead of the humans …
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Cassini Offers A New Glimpse Of The Pale Blue Dot
Given my fascination with the universe, my love for Carl Sagan, and my hopes that the reboot of Cosmos will …
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DARPA’s Robotics Challenge Narrows The Field To Eight Finalists
DARPA’s Robotics Challenge, where teams compete to design and develop disaster response robots, kicked off in June, with the software-based …
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Merry Christmas! Astronauts Conduct Emergency Repairs On ISS Cooling System
Unless his flying reindeer are truly amazing, like Falcor, Santa probably doesn’t make it to space. Or maybe he does, …
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Asteroid Hunting Spacecraft NEOWISE Is Back In Business
Forget diamonds — asteroids are the hottest rocks out there. And unlike most objects, celestial or otherwise, asteroids have a …
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Meet Valkyrie, NASA’s Superhero Robot
We’ve done lots of posts here on GFR about NASA, many of which bemoan the state and the budget of …
Want To Help Scientists Discover New Antibiotics?
NASA has proven adept at crowdsourcing — it leverages the exuberance and talents of students to build nanosatellites or to …
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Ex-NASA Engineer Creates Matrix-Style Bullet-Time Effect
If you’ve ever seen the Matrix (and honestly, who among you hasn’t?), you’ve likely marveled at the special effects, particularly …
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Saturn’s Hexagonal Hurricane In The Spotlight In New Cassini Footage
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is the gift that keeps on giving. The photos it provides us of Saturn, the most picturesque …
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Zachary Quinto Invites You To Ask Him Anything: Today In Science & Science Fiction
Star Trek’s Zachary Quinto is braving the wilds of Reddit today, participating in an AMA — “Ask Me Anything” — …
Scientists Appeal To Congress To Support Technology To Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Given how many candidate planets Kepler has identified, and the recently announced estimate that billions of habitable planets may exist …
Nine Universities And A High School Launched Nanosatellites Into Space With NASA
When money is tight, creative solutions make all the difference. NASA, no stranger to funding woes, has made the brilliant …
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Space Blogger Alison Wilgus’ Webcomic Takes You Inside Of NASA’s Inner Workings
Alison Wilgus writes about space and space exploration over at Tor.com, but she’s also got some serious chops when it …
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NASA VeSpR Rocket Telescope Scours Venus’ Atmosphere For Signs Of Water
While the Cassini, Curiosity, and MESSENGER craft have been giving us extensive information about Saturn, Mars, and Mercury, respectively, it’s …
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Kepler Telescope May Soon Function Once More
While it’s responsible for some of the more amazing exoplanetary discoveries of the last few years, NASA‘s Kepler Telescope has …
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NASA Will Try To Grow Plants On The Moon In 2015
In President Obama’s 2010 speech on the country’s space program, he undid the previous administration’s plan to send American astronauts …
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3, 2, 1 — Uh Oh, SpaceX Reschedules Falcon 9 Rocket Launch For Thursday
Earlier today, SpaceX’s website was counting down, stopping, then counting down again, then stopping again, scrubbing the launch that was …
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Sally Ride Receives Posthumous Presidential Medal Of Freedom
Too often, one’s contributions to the world don’t get their just honor until it’s too late. Sally Ride, the first …
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NASA Animation Shows Ancient Mars As A Lush World
Scientists know that Mars has changed a lot over the years. It used to be warm and wet, and quite …
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TV Review: The Challenger Disaster Is A Surprisingly Compelling And Profound Docudrama
I remember January 28, 1986. I was seven years old. I, like so many other excited students, gathered in the …
Mars MAVEN Hopes To Crack The Mystery Of Mars
If the weather cooperates, tomorrow will mark another step in our long journey toward the Red Planet, with the launch …
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NASA Finally Reveals Cassini’s Stunning Big Pic Of Saturn
Back on July 19, NASA turned the Cassini orbiter around so that the craft faced its home world, and took …
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Exoplanet Infographic Tracks All The Worlds Discovered By The Kepler Telescope
It’s well past the witching hour here as I write this, and I should really be going to bed. But …
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Flight Of The Conchords’ Bret McKenzie Is Working On An Animated Series About NASA
For now, it seems like Flight of the Conchords, the musical/comedy duo Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement are taking a …
SpaceX Is One Step Closer To Manned Flight Capability
Back in 2009, NASA began the Commercial Crew Program (CCP), designed to promote private sector development of human spaceflight. The …
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Space Racers And NASA Aim To Take Over Preschool Entertainment
If you have children you’ve probably been inundated by one program after the other that teaches kids how to count, …
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NASA Prepares Orion For Unmanned Flight Tests
Despite the government shutdown, NASA was able to continue working on the Orion, NASA’s next manned spacecraft. Before any humans …
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Asteroid That Zoomed Past Earth Last Month Probably Won’t Hit Us In 2032. Probably.
It seems that asteroid-related doomsday predictions have become a staple of science news. Yep, there are asteroids out there. Yep, …
President Jimmy Carter’s Voyager Letter To Any Theoretical Extraterrestrials Out There
The Voyager 1 probe made history last month when scientists agreed that it had finally, officially ventured beyond our solar …
Remote-Controlled Space Robots Will Work Better When They Can See The Future
While remote-controlled robots are awesome and can do loads of tasks that are too difficult and dangerous for humans, there’s …
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