WASHINGTON — University faculty and students are invited to join a weeklong workshop June 16-21 to learn how to build and launch a scientific experiment to space. Registration is open through May 1. RockOn! 2012 will be held at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. The annual workshop is held in [...]

WASHINGTON — NASA today announced the selection of GenTech Partners Joint Venture, of Hampton, Va., to provide Langley Research Center’s administrative, media and professional services (LAMPS). GenTech Partners Joint Venture, of Genex Systems LLC and ManTech SRS Technologies, is a Small Business Administration 8(a)-certified small disadvantaged business. The LAMPS contract was awarded after a competitive [...]

WASHINGTON — The heads of the International Space Station (ISS) agencies from Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia and the United States met in Quebec City, Canada, on March 1, 2012, to review the scientific, technological, and social benefits being produced through their collaboration, and to discuss plans for further broadening these benefits by continuing to advance [...]

WASHINGTON — Drastic reductions in Arctic sea ice in the last decade may be intensifying the chemical release of bromine into the atmosphere, resulting in ground-level ozone depletion and the deposit of toxic mercury in the Arctic, according to a new NASA-led study. The connection between changes in the Arctic Ocean’s ice cover and bromine [...]

HOUSTON — On Feb. 29, NASA successfully conducted another drop test of the Orion crew vehicle’s entry, descent and landing parachutes high above the Arizona desert in preparation for the vehicle’s orbital flight test in 2014. Orion will carry astronauts deeper into space than ever before, provide emergency abort capability, sustain the crew during space [...]

CLEVELAND — NASA-selected student teams will test their science experiments in the 2.2-second drop tower at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland from March 15-20. While in free fall, the students’ experiments will experience microgravity conditions similar to those on the International Space Station. The selections are part of two national science competitions: Dropping In [...]

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. — NASA has awarded a cooperative agreement to the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute of Sonoma, Calif., to support Earth science research at NASA’s Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif. The Ames Cooperative for Research in Earth Science and Technology (ARC-CREST) agreement has a total value of approximately $137 million, which [...]

WASHINGTON — Astronomers using data from NASA’s Hubble Telescope have observed what appears to be a clump of dark matter left behind from a wreck between massive clusters of galaxies. The result could challenge current theories about dark matter that predict galaxies should be anchored to the invisible substance even during the shock of a [...]

WASHINGTON — NASA invites the public to an event featuring senior government leaders, scientists and innovators in celebration of Women’s History Month. The “Women, Aerospace and Innovation” program will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. EST on March 8 at the George Washington University’s Jack Morton Auditorium and Marvin Center at 805 21st [...]

WASHINGTON — Community college students will have the chance to design robotic rovers in cooperation with NASA. Ninety-two students from schools in 24 states have been selected to travel to a NASA center to develop rovers through the National Community College Aerospace Scholars program. The initiative provides hands-on opportunities to inspire interest in science, technology, [...]