NASA
- Formed: July 29, 1958
- Location: Kennedy Space Center
- Related: Space Force
- Status: Active
Latest NASA News
Apollo 11’s F-1 Rocket Discovered On The Ocean Floor
The only things I’ve ever gotten from the bottom of an ocean are leg wounds from being whisked along jagged …
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Comet ISON Soars Before The Stars In Mesmerizing Hubble Image
The most beautiful thing on Earth might fight a tough fight, but it will eventually get trumped by the most …
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Neptune’s Tiny 14th Moon Has Been Discovered
One of the most fascinating and humbling aspects of space exploration is that almost everything is billions of years older …
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NASA Responds To A 7 Year Old’s Request To Go Into Space
Remember how amazing the idea of space travel was when you were a kid? Don’t get me wrong, it still …
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NASA Will Try To Fix Kepler Space Telescope
Kepler, we just can’t quit you. During bouts of insomnia, cruising the NASA website for news and photos of your …
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Wrath Of Khan Director Penning TV Pilot About The Origins Of The Space Race
Whenever the American space program is featured in film, it’s usually in the context of a huge shuttle launch or …
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NASA’s Billion-Pixel Mars Panorama Shows The Red Planet In Amazing Detail
NASA’s Curiosity rover has been providing plenty of amazing images from the Red Planet for armchair astronauts such as myself …
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U.S. Committee Wants Your Opinions Of The Future Of Human Spaceflight
We here at GFR are obviously huge supporters of advancing exploration of and expansion into space in whatever form it …
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LEGO And NASA Want Your Designs For Future Spacecraft
Life imitates art, and art imitates life. What about toys equal future, and future equals toys? Besides making me sound …
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NASA Is Sending A 3D Printer To Space Next Year
Say you’re on the International Space Station and you manage to break every single coffee cup on board. No one …
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Warner Bros. Developing A Movie About The Apollo 11 Spacesuit Designers
Before NASA could launch a successful mission to the Moon in 1969 with Apollo 11, scientists and engineers had to …
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Sally Ride Honored In National Tribute, With Posthumous Presidential Medal Of Freedom Coming
Sally Ride was the kind of person about whom you’ll probably never see a negative word written. A physicist, astronaut, …
NASA And Google Will Try To Figure Out Artificial Intelligence Together
So apparently I was way off when I thought the limits of artificial intelligence were met whenever Teddy Ruxpin made …
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Astronaut Chris Hadfield Sings Space Oddity Before Returning Home From The ISS
If you’re a regular GFR reader, the name Chris Hadfield probably rings a bell or two. During the Canadian astronaut’s …
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Student-Designed NASA Rover Will Explore Greenland’s Ice Sheets
Call him GROVER. But don’t go thinking about blue Muppets that live down streets named Sesame. That’s far from the …
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NASA Wants To Send Your Name And Haiku To Mars
If aliens come Have them know that I’m watching Big ole telescope For those of you out there with something …
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The First Battle Of Planetary Science Budget Cuts Begins!
I’m pretty sure some of you guys out there are fans of Sid Meier’s Civilization series of PC strategy games, …
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NASA And MIT Team Up To Search For Earthlike Planets
At the end of last year, astronomers said they believed an Earthlike planet would be discovered in 2013. Lo and behold, it’s …
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NASA-Backed Fusion Drive Could Get Us To Mars In 30 Days
In Jules Verne’s classic book, the eccentric Phineas Fogg leaves his peers gobsmacked when he bets them that he can …
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NASA Plans To Wrangle Asteroids Beginning In 2019
If you think NASA’s latest scheme sounds like it was lifted directly from Michael Bay’s Armageddon, then you’re not alone. …
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Seventies NASA Concept Art Imagines The Future That Still Hasn’t Arrived
We’ve often complained that the future we were promised never arrived. We don’t live in the floating cities or drive …
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Crowdfunded NASA Trailer Will Play Before Star Trek Into Darkness
With all the things that people are throwing money at on crowdfunding websites, it’s always encouraging to see something important …
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Express Flight To International Space Station Takes One-Eighth Of The Time
I’m not much of a travel person — and my status as a stay-at-home writer on a science blog does …
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NASA Proposes Holodecks And Motion-Controlled Rovers
You wouldn’t expect NASA to be a crowd-pleaser at this year’s Game Developers Conference (GDC), but sometimes when the government …
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Crowdfund A Space Exploration Trailer To Play Before Star Trek Into Darkness
After the insane success of the Veronica Mars movie Kickstarter, the concept of crowdfunding has leapt back into the public …
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30 Seconds To Mars Debuts Song From International Space Station
Despite their name, the band 30 Seconds to Mars doesn’t really have a whole lot to do with space, beyond …
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NASA Tells Congress A Lack Of Funding Could Lead To Future Asteroid Apocalypse
Everywhere you look, there are similarities to be found. For instance, who’d have thought that the problem holding NASA back …
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How Astronauts Wash Their Hands And Make A Sandwich In Space
There are a thousand little things that we all take for granted on a daily basis that suddenly become a …
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Mars Curiosity Rover’s Panoramic View is Beautiful And Creature-Free
You open the mailbox and beneath the small stack of bills, and you find a postcard from a traveling family …
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Mars Could Harbor Microbial Life Even Now
The recent news of microbes being present in at least one lake beneath Antarctica has reaffirmed many suspicions that some …
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