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Orbiter Discovery at NASM’s Udvar-Hazy Center
Orbiter Discovery at NASM’s Udvar-Hazy Center

On April 17, 2012, the orbiter Discovery departed the Kennedy Space Center on top of NASA’s Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft and traveled to Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C. for transfer and permanent display at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum (NASM).

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19th Annual NASA Moonbuggy Race!
19th Annual NASA Moonbuggy Race!

Students from around the world participate in this year’s race, navigating lightweight, innovative vehicles of their own design around a simulated moon surface course.

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NASA Releases First Student-Selected Photos from Moon Probes
NASA Releases First Student-Selected Photos from Moon Probes

NASA has released the first student-selected photographs from one of the twin spacecraft orbiting the moon.

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Call for Abstracts: 63rd International Astronautical Congress
Call for Abstracts: 63rd International Astronautical Congress

NASA announces its intent to participate in the 63rd International Astronautical Congress, or IAC, and requests that full-time graduate students attending U.S. universities or colleges respond to this call for abstracts. The IAC, which is organized by the International Astronautical Federation, the International Academy of Astronautics and the International Institute of Space Law, is the largest space-related conference worldwide and selects an average of 1,000 scientific papers every year.

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Women's History Month Event: Women, Innovation and Aerospace
Women's History Month Event: Women, Innovation and Aerospace

Women's History Month Event: Women, Innovation and Aerospace To celebrate Women's History Month, NASA and George Washington University are hosting a daylong event to foster discussion among students and early career professionals on encouraging women to enter and succeed in the field of aerospace. The event will take place at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., on March 8, 2012.

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NASA's Methane-Powered Launcher Lifts Off With a Blue-Hot Column of Flame
NASA's Methane-Powered Launcher Lifts Off With a Blue-Hot Column of Flame

NASA’s Project M, an awesome concept to use vertical launch systems to send robonauts to the moon, is still moving forward despite Robonaut’s one-way trip to the International Space Station. It’s now called Project Morpheus, and it’s a test bed for autonomous, environmentally friendly vertical launch systems. Click read more to watch as Morpheus fires its new engine for the first time.

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Carolina Ragolta - To Infinity, and Beyond!
Carolina Ragolta - To Infinity, and Beyond!

On February 7th, 2012 NASA Student Intern, Carolina Ragolta shared her experience to watch the last space shuttle launch at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center as part of the Speeches Project in Lowell House at Harvard University.

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STEM Workforce Infrastructure Explored at the Education Stakeholders' Summit II
STEM Workforce Infrastructure Explored at the Education Stakeholders' Summit II

NASA's Office of Education convened the second Education Stakeholders' Summit in Chantilly, VA from November 29 to December 2, 2011. NASA's Offices of Human Capital Management, Diversity and Equal Opportunity, and Communications co-sponsored this training event.

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View “This Year@NASA, 2011”
View “This Year@NASA, 2011”

“This Year@NASA, 2011” was produced by NASA Television. It features the agency’s highlights for 2011 -- a year marked by scientific discovery, technological innovation, new destinations for exploration, and the beginning of a new era for human exploration of our solar system.

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NASA Experiments with Hottest Toy in America: Intern Kinect's with Technology
NASA Experiments with Hottest Toy in America: Intern Kinect's with Technology

Glennoah Billie came to the Undergraduate Student Research Program (USRP) from the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI) in New Mexico, a recognized tribal college, making him the third tribal college student to take part in USRP at Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston.  Growing up on Navajo Nation Reservation, the dual computer engineering and computer science major always wanted to work for NASA, and through USRP, he got his chance.

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By Heather L. Ogletree
2012 International Astronautical Federation Emerging Space Leaders Grant Programme
2012 International Astronautical Federation Emerging Space Leaders Grant Programme

The International Astronautical Federation (IAF) is pleased to announce its 2012 Emerging Space Leaders Grant Programme (formerly known as the Youth Grant Programme) that provides opportunities for students and young professionals to participate the annual International Astronautical Congresses. The deadline for applications is February 1, 2012.

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2011 IAC Conference, Cape Town South Africa
2011 IAC Conference, Cape Town South Africa

NASA announced its intent to participate in the 62nd International Astronautical Congress, or IAC, and requested that full-time graduate students attending U.S. universities or colleges respond to it's "Call for Abstracts." The IAC -- which is organized by the International Astronautical Federation, or IAF; the International Academy of Astronautics, or IAA; and the International Institute of Space Law, or IISL, -- is the largest space-related conference worldwide and selects an average of 1000 scientific papers every year. The IAC was held Oct. 3-7, 2011, in Cape Town, South Africa. NASA's participation in this event was an ongoing effort to continue to connect NASA with the astronautical and space international community. 

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NASA's Third Annual Lunabotics Mining Competition
NASA's Third Annual Lunabotics Mining Competition

NASA's Third Annual Lunabotics Mining Competition is a university-level competition designed to engage and retain students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). NASA will directly benefit from the competition by encouraging the development of innovative lunar excavation concepts from universities which may result in clever ideas and solutions which could be applied to an actual lunar excavation device or payload. The challenge is for students to design and build an excavator, called a Lunabot, that can mine and deposit a minimum of 10 kilograms of lunar simulant within 10 minutes. The complexities of the challenge include the abrasive characteristics of the BP-1, the weight and size limitations of the Lunabot, and the ability to telerobotically or autonomously control the Lunabot from a remote mission control center. This year the scoring for the mining category will not be based primarily on the amount of material excavated in the allowed time but instead will require teams to consider a number of design and operation factors such as dust tolerance and projection, communications, vehicle mass, energy/power required, and level of autonomy.

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