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NASA’s Open Government Plan Features the International Space Apps Challenge

This week, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) released version 2.0 of our Open Government Plan. We used this milestone to sharpen our focus on initiatives such as creating a new web architecture, employing wider use of Open Source technologies, and increasing opportunities for engaging citizens in NASA’s mission. This week, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) released version 2.0 of our Open Government Plan.  We used this milestone to sharpen our focus on initiatives such as creating a new web architecture, employing wider use of Open Source technologies, and increasing opportunities for engaging citizens in NASA’s mission.  We also developed an online version of our plan that features ...

NASA’s New Science Leader Brings Out-Of-This-World Creds

As NASA announced today, there isn’t a better person to guide the plethora of world-class science projects currently in that Directorate’s pipeline than the "Hubble Repairman" himself, John Grunsfeld. From far-reaching probes traveling across the Solar System, to Earth-observing satellites, the giant Hubble Space Telescope, and a car-sized Mars rover, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate  has led an astonishing array of missions that have unveiled vital secrets about our home planet while deepening our understanding of the universe around us. And as NASA announced today , there isn’t a better person to guide the plethora of world-class science projects currently in that Directorate’s pipeline than the & ...

Arid Arizona Home to NASA’s RATS

0 0 NASA’s Desert Research And Technology Studies ... ! For the past week, hoards of NASA human space exploration study teams have been gallivanting around the Arizona desert as part of NASA’s Desert R esearch A nd T echnology S tudies, or Desert RATS. The Desert RATS demonstrations ... of exploration, NASA has made great strides in bringing Desert RATS to the public. Prior to the start of this year’s mission, panoramic images of the Desert RATS test site were taken and displayed online. The public was given the chance to vote and select ...

From Friday: NASA Reaching for New Heights

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and OSTP Director John P. Holdren explain why the United States remains far and away the world leader in space technology and exploration, and how this will remain the case. [Editor's Note:  This has been cross-posted from the White House Blog .] In his gloomy Washington Post commentary today on yesterday’s ceremony transferring ownership of the Space Shuttle Discovery from NASA to the Smithsonian’s National Air ... as Discovery’s transfer to the Smithsonian, NASA gave the green light to a commercial company, SpaceX, for a planned April 30 launch from Kennedy Space Center, with a berthing at the ISS a few days later. Later this year, Orbital Sciences will launch ...

NASA Reaching for New Heights

NASA’s focus on new space technologies is seeding innovation, supporting economic vitality and helping create new jobs and expanded opportunities for a skilled workforce In his gloomy Washington Post commentary today on yesterday’s ceremony transferring ownership of the Space Shuttle Discovery from NASA to the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, Charles Krauthammer urged readers to think of that transfer as the funeral for U.S. leadership in space.  Nothing could ... Shuttle – has been built by private corporations. That is continuing, but on a more competitive basis.  Indeed, in the same week as Discovery’s transfer to the Smithsonian, NASA gave the green light to a commercial company, SpaceX, for a planned April 30 ...

NASA Supports Technology Breakthroughs, Small Businesses and the American Economy

Mason Peck Mason Peck is NASA’s Chief Technologist. 0 0 In step with President Obama's Strategy for American Innovation, NASA and the Small Business Innovation Research program help foster burgeoning technology companies ... . With the help of NASA  and a unique Federal initiative – the Small Business Innovation Research program  (SBIR) -- CRG, which specializes in advanced materials, system engineering and manufacturing technologies, has grown from one man’s basement ...

NASA Joins Campaign to Encourage the Next Generation of American Engineers and Innovators

Charles Bolden Charles Bolden is the Administrator of NASA ... , engineering deans from some of the nation’s top universities – including Georgia Tech – have developed a gold seal standard of excellence for colleges and universities focused on improved retention and graduation rates.  The participation of NASA ... to close the skills gap is the engagement of more students in the study of science, technology, engineering and math or the STEM disciplines. NASA is now embarking on ambitious agenda of deep space exploration that will carry our astronauts ...

Small Business Good for NASA and for America

Ed. Note: Cross-posted with the NASA blog Earlier today at an awards ceremony in Herndon, Virginia, I got a chance to recognize the men, women and companies that have made outstanding contributions to NASA’s indispensable partnership with small business. The  Fourth Annual NASA Small Business Symposium and Awards Ceremony was a two-day event, providing opportunities for small businesses to network and learn about NASA programs and initiatives, while recognizing outstanding individuals and companies that support the agency’s small business program. Awards were presented to both NASA civil servants and large and small businesses that were instrumental in NASA awarding $4.3 billion to small businesses in FY 2011. This represented ...

NASA Contest Heralds Dawn of the Electric Plane

NASA is providing the $1.65 million prize purse for the Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency (CAFE) Foundation Green Flight Challenge competition, sponsored by Google, taking place this week outside of Santa Rosa, Calif. This has been cross-posted from the NASA blog .   Team members of the e-Genius aircraft prepare their plane prior to competition as part of the 2011 Green Flight Challenge, sponsored by Google, at the Charles M. Schulz Sonoma County Airport in Santa Rosa, Calif. on Monday, Sept. 26, 2011. NASA and the Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency (CAFE) Foundation are having the challenge with the goal to advance technologies in fuel efficiency and reduced emissions ...