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NASA abbr. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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NASA'S WISE SKY SURVEYING SPACECRAFT READY FOR LAUNCH DEC. 11
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 12/8/2009; 597 words
; WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 -- NASA issued the following media advisory: The launch of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE...EST from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. NASA will provide television and Internet coverage of...
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NASA and the decision to build the space shuttle, 1969-72.
Magazine article from: The Historian; 9/22/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) began to work on in the late 1960s. With the shuttle program NASA planned to facilitate its aggressive space...transportation to and from Earth's orbit. NASA officials compared the space program...
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NASA awards more than USD94m to advance next generation space transportation effort.
M2 Presswire; 12/18/2001; 700+ words
; M2 PRESSWIRE-18 December 2001-NASA: NASA awards more than USD94m to advance next generation space transportation...effort (C)1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:17122001 NASA today announced an additional $94.6 million in contract awards...
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NASA Announces Three International Space Station Crews.
PR Newswire; 2/12/2007; 700+ words
; ...WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA and its international partners have named...Columbus laboratories on the station. NASA astronaut and veteran station crew member...Force Brig. Gen. Leopold Eyharts and NASA astronaut Garrett E. Reisman. -- Malenchenko...
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NASA Will Emerge from Shuttle Investigation Stronger, Observers Say.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 2/10/2003; 700+ words
; ...the shuttle Columbia over Texas, many NASA watchers, including some who feared another...agency. They say a major difference is that NASA reacted much more quickly and has been...committees. "Within a matter of hours, NASA had teams of investigators on it. The...
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NASA ventures into space commercial frontier
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 10/7/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Mechanics, compliments of the magazine. Now, NASA is about to jump on the space-for-sale bandwagon. A draft document issued by NASA is circulating among space-exploration...ideas put forth in the document, which NASA says is a work-in-progress: Allow...
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NASA Spinoff 2007 Highlights Space Innovation in Everyday Life
Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire; 12/21/2007; 515 words
; ...TECHNOLOGY EDITORS Contact: David E. Steitz of NASA Headquarters, Washington, +1- 202-358-1730, david.steitz@nasa.gov WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Spinoff 2007, an annual online and print publication...
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NASA and GATE Announce Partnership Awards.
PR Newswire; 5/11/2005; 700+ words
; ...Competition. GATE is a collaboration of NASA Glenn Research Center, Ohio Aerospace...recommendation by Northeast Ohio leaders that NASA Glenn forge additional partnerships with...technology transfer initiatives between NASA Glenn and Ohio companies consistent with...
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NASA Announces New Explorer Schools.
PR Newswire; 5/17/2005; 700+ words
; WASHINGTON, May 17 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA today announced the 50 new 2005 Explorer Schools. The NASA Explorer Schools are the heart of a unique...states, Puerto Rico and Washington. The NASA Explorer Schools (NES) program is one of...
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NASA negotiating to build Space Camp in I-X Center. (NASA Lewis Research Center, International Exposition Center)
Magazine article from: Crain's Cleveland Business; 4/16/1990; ; 700+ words
; NASA negotiating to build Space Camp in I-X Center The NASA Lewis Research Center has resurrected plans to build a museum, visitor center and Space Camp off NASA grounds and is in negotiations to locate the complex in...
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NASA
Book article from: Space Sciences
NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Act of...National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to "provide for research into problems...and for other purposes." At the time of NASA's creation, it was not possible to predict...
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NASA (National Air and Space Administration)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security
NASA (National Air and Space Administration...National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have to date elevated aerospace technologies...physical tools for ensuring national security. NASA and DOD joint research has propelled the advances...
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Book article from: Computer Sciences
...National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was formed in 1958 from the National Advisory...air and space research. Within a decade, NASA had three piloted and several unpiloted space...
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NASA Covers Up Evidence of Alien Life on Mars
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained
NASA Covers Up Evidence of Alien Life on Mars NASA meddler Richard Hoagland insists that not only have the astronauts...Mars Face, a Sphinx-like object that appeared on numerous NASA photographs during the Viking I orbit in 1976, Hoagland has...
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NASA Infrared Telescope Facility
Book article from: A Dictionary of Astronomy
NASA Infrared Telescope Facility ( IRTF ) A 3-m reflector for infrared astronomy, particularly of Solar System objects, opened in 1979 at Mauna Kea Observatory , Hawaii. It is operated for NASA by the University of Hawaii. http://irtfweb.ifa.hawaii.edu/
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