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NASA, Bigelow Human Space Exploration Agreement, May 23, 2013 (Audio Only)
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NASA Television Covers the Launch of the Next ISS Crew
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HAMPTON, Va. - NASA Langley and the Virginia Science Technology Engineering and Applied Mathematics (STEAM) Academy have signed a partnership agreement to enhance STEAM teaching and learning in Virginia through research mentorships and sabbatical opportunities.
NASA Langley plans to dedicate 10 mentors to Virginia STEAM Academy students and faculty. Mentors will provide face-to-face and online research and shadowing opportunities for students and faculty. In addition, NASA Langley will offer guidance on how to create hands-on learning experiences. Select Virginia STEAM Academy students will serve as ambassadors for NASA Langley's research and education programs.
The Virginia STEAM Academy is a multi-dimensional, statewide initiative. It has four components: 1) a public boarding high school for highly able and STEAM-interested students drawn from across Virginia 2) a summer camp for able and interested middle school students 3) online, on-demand course offerings to Virginia students and educators, and 4) professional development.
Since its inception two years ago, the Virginia STEAM Academy has secured partnership agreements with five universities, three science institutions, including NASA Langley, and gained support from students, parents, school division leaders, state and local policymakers, and the business community. The academy's consortium leadership model aims to increase collaboration and leverage Virginia resources so that any youth with interest and ability will have access to the academy's rigorous, immersive, comprehensive, and applied learning experience, regardless of zip code.
By partnering with the Virginia STEAM Academy early in its development, NASA Langley will have a role in the design, delivery, measurement, and continuous improvement of the academy. "For our country's sake and our future work force, NASA is passionate about attracting and retaining educators and students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, disciplines," said Roger Hathaway, NASA Langley Education lead. "The Virginia STEAM Academy shares that passion."
The Virginia STEAM Academy sees its partnership with NASA Langley as a cornerstone to impact the commonwealth's STEAM educational offerings and economic future. "NASA Langley is a national treasure," said Virginia STEAM Academy Co-founders Judy K. Stewart and M. Caroline Martin. "Through our partnership, Virginia STEAM Academy students and faculty will routinely experience the breadth of research and career opportunities at NASA Langley."
For more information about NASA's Langley Research Center, go to: http://www.nasa.gov/langley
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Southampton, PA, USA. May 28, 2013 - The NASTAR Center, the premier commercial space training and research center in the world, has been designated as a "NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Space Place Community Partner". The NASTAR Center and the NASA Space Place partnership help support mutual initiatives to encourage, facilitate, and promote space-based education. The Space Place was started in February 1998 as an education and public outreach project of NASA`s New Millennium Program. The Space Place program includes a kid-friendly web site (www.spaceplace.nasa.gov) and bulletin board displays at Community Partner sites around the country. Its target audience is elementary-school-age kids. As a Space Place Community Partner, the NASTAR Center has added a Space Place display to its Educator Resource Center (ERC).
"This is one more avenue where teachers and students who visit the NASTAR Center can learn about current NASA projects," said Gregory Kennedy, the NASTAR Center Director of Education. "NASA`s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has provided educational materials that will help us excite young people about the space program," he added.
The NASTAR Center is an Affiliate Member of the NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium and offers science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) educational programs for students and teachers. To learn more about NASTAR`s Education Programs, go to http://www.nastarcenter.com/education.
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A retired NASA official who served on the Apollo Navigation Team has been found dead inside a home in Thailand, the Bangkok Post reported Tuesday in its online editions.
Police Col. Ekarat Intasueb, chief of Mae Sot police station, told the newspaper that Paul Milford Muller, Ph.D., was found with a rope tied around his genitals and waist and another rope tied around his neck, hanging from a knob of his bedroom door.
There were no signs that Muller, 76, had been assaulted, according to the Bangkok Post.
Muller appeared to have died from asphyxiation or from a heart attack after a drug overdose, police said.
Investigators told the Bangkok Post that equipment for injecting crystal methamphetamine, five methamphetamine pills and several sex toys were also found in the room.
Police suspect that Muller had been dead about three days when his body was found in the Tak province of Thailand. The body was sent to Mae Sot hospital for a post-mortem examination.
Muller, who lived in Thailand, worked for 10 years at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, and served on the Apollo Navigation Team, according to his website, mullerpaulm.com,
He also was the author of three books, including "Suicide Inc" -- described on his website as a "romantic and erotic thriller."
Police were trying to contact his relatives to take charge of the body, the Bangkok Post reported.
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CALABASAS, Calif., May 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --National Technical Systems, Inc. (NTSC) (NTS), a leading provider of testing and engineering services, today announced it completed a series of qualification tests on NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE), a satellite that will orbit the moon to gather detailed information about the lunar atmosphere, conditions near the moon's surface and environmental influences on lunar dust. NASA's LADEE Observatory is scheduled to launch in the late summer of 2013.
Working alongside each other, NASA and NTS engineers simulated the conditions of launch and space travel by subjecting LADEE to high levels of acoustics, severe vibration levels and intense shock environments to ensure that the spacecraft will function properly during its trip to the moon. To ensure the spacecraft was uncontaminated, all testing was performed in clean room conditions at NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, CA, and NTS' Santa Clarita (CA) facility. Ames is responsible for managing the mission, building the spacecraft and performing mission operations.
The LADEE project marks the first time for NASA Ames to outsource this type of critical testing to an independent testing laboratory. Typically, these tests are performed in-house or by the prime contractor building the satellite.
A NASA spokesperson said because of the expense of building satellites, such as the LADEE Observatory, it is critical that qualification testing be thorough and reliable.
"The LADEE project is a very important mission for NASA and it is important that we have the highest chance of mission success. This requires undergoing an extensive battery of environmental tests before launch." said Zion Young, LADEE Mechanical Test Lead. "We try to anticipate all of the mechanical environments that the spacecraft will experience during launch and flight; we then test the spacecraft by simulating these extreme environments using specialized equipment. Once the environmental tests are complete the spacecraft is both physically inspected and functionally tested, certifying the spacecraft is ready for launch, and ready to carry out the mission."
NTS President and CEO William McGinnis said the NASA testing demonstrates the Company's ability to simulate difficult environments and perform a rigorous battery of tests in a cost-effective manner.
"We are very pleased that NASA had the confidence in NTS to select us to perform these important tests for its critical LADEE mission to the moon," McGinnis said. "We have worked diligently to expand and upgrade our capabilities to serve the aerospace and aviation markets, which we consider to be two of the most important markets for NTS for our current and future success. We look forward to continuing to compete for work for NASA and other aerospace customers."
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NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington funds the LADEE mission, a cooperative effort led by NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. Ames is responsible for managing the mission, building the spacecraft and performing mission operations. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., is responsible for managing the science instruments and technology demonstration payload, and the science operations center. NASA Wallops Flight Facility will be responsible for launch vehicle integration, launch services, and launch range operations. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala., manages LADEE within the Lunar Quest Program Office. For more information about LADEE, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/ladee
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MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. Technological advances are bringing down the cost of space research and exploration, with 3D printing poised to provide a transformative leap, NASA chief Charles Bolden says.
During a tour of the space agency's Ames Research Center here Friday (May 24), Bolden lauded the scientific potential of PhoneSats, tiny and inexpensive spacecraft based on off-the-shelf smartphones. And he singled out 3D printing as a promising key enabler of humanity's push out into the solar system.
"As NASA ventures further into space, whether redirecting an asteroid or sending humans to Mars, we'll need transformative technology to reduce cargo weight and volume," Bolden said. "In the future, perhaps astronauts will be able to print the tools or components they need while in space." [10 Amazing 3D-Printed Objects]
The future of spaceflight?
As proof that satellites don't have to be huge and expensive to observe our planet, Bolden pointed to the success of the Ames-led PhoneSat demonstration mission, which launched three modified Google Nexus One smartphones into orbit last month.
The three cubesats known as Alexander, Graham and Bell lifted off April 21 on the maiden flight of the private Antares rocket, which the Virginia-based firm Orbital Sciences Corp. will use to blast unmanned cargo missions toward the International Space Station for NASA.
All three PhoneSats operated normally until re-entering the atmosphere as expected on April 27, with two of them even beaming down pictures of Earth from space.
"This is off-the-shelf technology used to do what would normally be called Earth science, looking back at Earth and giving us that capability for a very inexpensive price," Bolden said.
"The Phonesats themselves were much less than $10,000 apiece," he added. "And if we can get the cost per pound on the launch to go down, we'll be OK."
During his tour of Ames, Bolden also got a look at a prototype 3D printer built by the company Made in Space, which is slated to launch one of its machines to the International Space Station next year in the first test of off-Earth manufacturing.
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope could be used to find Mars-size alien planets orbiting strange "failed stars" known as brown dwarfs, according to a new proposal by a multinational astronomy team.
The group, led by a postdoctoral researcher at MIT, proposes to use the venerable observatory to find small, rocky exoplanets around brown dwarfs, which are larger than planets but too small to ignite the nuclear fusion reactions that power stars.
Astronomers will seek planets crossing the face of these brown dwarfs, in the hopes that some of them will end up being capable of supporting life as we know it. [9 Exoplanets That Could Host Alien Life]
The planets sought would orbit more closely than Mercury does to the sun, but the faint warmth of brown dwarfs could still make such inner regions habitable, researchers said.
"Our program represents an essential step towards the atmospheric characterization of terrestrial planets and carries the compelling promise of studying the concept of habitability beyond Earth-like conditions," the team's paper stated.
Spotting small planets around brown dwarfs
The team is aiming for Mars-size planets because of their importance in planetary formation models, lead author Armaury Triaud told SPACE.com.
Models suggest our solar system emerged from a spinning disk of dust and gas, with planets slowly clumping together as particles collided, Triaud said, cautioning that we can't be completely sure of what actually occurred.
Our nascent solar system crossed an important threshold when those protoplanets reached the size of Mars, he said.
"Eventually these planet embryos, the size of Mars, those would collide and form bigger rocky planets, or the core of [gas giant] planets such as Jupiter," Triaud said.
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SGI (SGI), the trusted leader in technical computing, today announced that NASA's Ames Research Center has selected an SGI(R) UV(TM) 2000 shared memory system to support more than a thousand active users around the country who are doing research for earth, space and aeronautics missions.
Installed early this year at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility at Ames, Moffett Field, Calif., Endeavour is a shared-memory system that took the place of the Columbia supercomputer. Named in honor of the Space Shuttle Endeavour, the last orbiter built during NASA's Space Shuttle Program, this new system is based on the latest Intel(R) Xeon(R) processor E5-4600 product family. This processing power, combined in a large, shared-memory cluster, allows Endeavour to provide more high-end computing resources for users while occupying just 10 percent of the previous Columbia system's floor space. Endeavour will provide large, shared memory capability and will enable solutions for many NASA science and engineering applications, including simulation and modeling of global ocean circulation, galaxy and planet formation, and aerodynamic design for air and space vehicles.
"A portion of our current code base requires either large memory within a node or utilizes Open MP as the communication software between tens to hundreds of processors," said William Thigpen, high-end computing project manager at the NAS facility. "The largest portion of Endeavour is able to meet the large shared memory requirement with 4 terabytes of addressable memory and can apply over 1,000 cores against an Open MP application."
The new Endeavour system includes a total of 1536 cores and 6TB of global shared memory. NASA Ames has an existing community of users who could not easily transition to MPI programming models, and the previous system needed to be replaced by a new platform to support this community. Today, user productivity has improved, and the machines are busy.
"NASA scientists are leading the way in studying climate and earth sciences," said Jorge Titinger, president and CEO of SGI. "This is important work that affects current and future generations. SGI is proud to partner with NASA to provide the necessary infrastructure to enable its research." "The Endeavor System has a compelling scientific mission that requires advanced capabilities in memory size, processing capability and efficiency," said Raj Hazra, vice president and general manager of Intel Technical Computing Group. "Intel provides the essential computing technology to help SGI's innovative system launch these critical scientific missions into orbit through the Intel Xeon E5-4600 family of products."
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NASA will host a media teleconference at 2:30 p.m. EDT (18:30 UTC) Thursday, May 30, to present new findings from the Mars Science Laboratory Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) aboard the rover Curiosity.
The journal Science has embargoed details until 2 p.m. May 30.
Briefing participants:
-- Donald M. Hassler, RAD principal investigator and program director, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), San Antonio -- Cary Zeitlin, principal scientist, SwRI -- Eddie Semones, spaceflight radiation health officer, NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston -- Chris Moore, deputy director of advanced exploration systems, NASA Headquarters, Washington
For dial-in information, media representatives should e-mail their name, affiliation and telephone number to Trent Perrotto at trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov by noon EDT May 30.
Visuals will be posted at the start of the teleconference on NASA's Mars Science Laboratory website: http://go.nasa.gov/curiositytelecon
Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live on NASA's website: http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio
Contact: Trent J. Perrotto NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C. +1 202-358-1100 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov
SwRI and Christian Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany, built RAD with funding from NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate and Germany's national aerospace research center, Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project. NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington manages the Mars Exploration Program.
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In the three years since he joined NASA as a research engineer, 29-year-old Manan Vyas has accomplished two major technical feats in the highly challenging area of aeronautics.
One will allow for more realistic and effective flight testing of space vehicles and high-speed aircraft, both for military and passenger use. The other will help the U.S. Air Force retest a hypersonic engine that previously failed to ignite and propel an experimental aircraft, a critical step toward advancing the technology.
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Vyas work comes in the field of hypersonic propulsionthat is, speeds several times faster than the speed of sound. It is a souped-up version of supersonic propulsionanything above the speed of soundthe 20th-century innovation that thrilled the world with the launch of the Concorde passenger jet that could fly from New York to Paris in less than 3.5 hours. Hypersonic propulsion is considered the final frontier of aeronautics because of the huge technical difficulties that need to be solved.
The team that Vyas works with at the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland designs different types of hypersonic-propulsion systems, brings them into wind tunnels and tweaks them as necessary. When developing new technologies, simulations are a critical tool to help understand and predict how the test conditions may be different from actual flight.
Vyas first achievement verified what many in the field had long suspectedthat the airflow in the wind tunnels that are used to replicate flight conditions has a chemical composition different from actual atmospheric conditions and leads to different combustion processes. In technical terms, he performed complex simulations using computational fluid dynamics and sophisticated chemistry, turbulence and heat-transfer models.
His investigation produced first-of-their-kind results and underscored that significant care must be taken when replicating flight conditions in wind tunnels and testing supersonic combustion.
Manans work has helped us understand the differences between actual flight and the simulated environment, which before his work was unknown, said Dhanireddy Reddy, chief of NASAs Aeropropulsion Division. He has only been out of school for three years and has made significant contributions to NASA Glenn.
Jih-Fen Lei, director of NASAs Research and Technology Directorate agreed. Without his work, we would not have the confidence we need.
High-speed flight has implications far in the future for reusable space vehicles, long-distance cruise missiles, greatly reduced travel times for passenger jets, and other military and civilian applications, said George Schmidt, deputy director of NASAs Research and Technology Directorate. Researchers predict that use of the new technology could allow the 18-hour trip from New York to Tokyo to be reduced to two hours in airplanes reaching 15 times the speed of sound.
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A NASA-funded project that aims to transform a 3D printer into a space kitchen could one day reinvent how astronauts eat in the final frontier.
NASA officials confirmed this week that the space agency awarded $125,000 to the Austin, Texas-based company Systems and Materials Research Consultancy (SMRC) to study how to make nutritious and efficient space food with a 3D-printerduring long space missions. The project made headlines this week largely because of the first item on the menu: a 3D-printed space pizza.
Future astronauts on deep-space mission will face a host of health and sustenance challenges. A roundtrip from Earth to Mars, for instance, could last several years and require thousands of meals for an astronaut crew. [10 Amazing 3D-Printed Objects]
"The current food system wouldn't meet the nutritional needs and five-year shelf life required for a mission to Mars or other long duration missions," NASA officials said in a statement. "Because refrigeration and freezing require significant spacecraft resources, current NASA provisions consist solely of individually prepackaged shelf stable foods, processed with technologies that degrade the micronutrients in the foods."
NASA officials said SMRC will explore whether a3D-printedfood system will be able to provide nutrient stability and a wide variety of foods from shelf stable ingredients, while minimizing waste and saving time for space crews.
Engineers at SMRC are apparently envisioning a system that can "print" dishes using layers of food powders that will have a shelf life of three decades.
"The way we are working on it is, all the carbs, proteins and macro and micro nutrients are in powder form," Anjan Contractor, a senior mechanical engineer at SMRC, toldQuartz, which first reported the project. "We take moisture out, and in that form it will last maybe 30 years."
Contractor already printed chocolate and now is working on a prototype to print a pizza, according to Quartz. NASA later issued a statement about the Small Business Innovation Research phase I contract that was given to SMRC.
This initial six-month project could lead to a phase II study, but NASA officials said the technology is still years away from being tested on an actual flight.
Besides printing celestial pizza, 3D printing could have other uses in space. Also called additive manufacturing, the technology could allow astronauts to make replacement parts for spacecraft or even extraterrestrial habitats, like alunar base.
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