In his keynote address at the Aviation 2013 conference in Los Angeles, NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden shared a new strategic vision for the agency's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate designed to help address looming challenges in global air transportation.
While on the west coast the Administrator also stopped by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to check out preparations for two Earth-observing missions scheduled for launch next year.
On Mars, NASA's Curiosity rover captured the images in this animated sequence of the planet's two moons in motion -- with Phobos, the larger moon, passing in front of the other moon, Deimos.
A NASA study on affects to our climate from wildfires and other air pollution sources is underway.
During an August 16 spacewalk outside the International Space Station, Flight Engineers Fyodor Yurchikhin and Alexander Misurkin -- wearing Russian Orlan spacesuits -- installed equipment for the arrival of a new Russian module and completed prep work for the installation later this year of an optical telescope.
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden put a new spin on teaching at the 17th annual GLOBE Partners Meeting at the University of Maryland University College.
A flexible woven fabric heat shield is being tested at Ames Research Center.
NASA and the Navy invited the media to check out key testing of splashdown recovery operations for the agency's Orion spacecraft at Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia.
Sierra Nevada Corporation's Dream Chaser flight vehicle went through a series of ground tests on the concrete runways at Dryden Flight Research Center.
NASA's Associate Administrator for Space Technology Mike Gazarik was the keynote speaker at this year's Small Satellite Conference at the Utah State University in Logan on August 12.
Remote plant production technology for NASA's deep space habitat prototype was demonstrated at Kennedy Space Center by student developers from the University of Colorado-Boulder.
While on the west coast the Administrator also stopped by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to check out preparations for two Earth-observing missions scheduled for launch next year.
On Mars, NASA's Curiosity rover captured the images in this animated sequence of the planet's two moons in motion -- with Phobos, the larger moon, passing in front of the other moon, Deimos.
A NASA study on affects to our climate from wildfires and other air pollution sources is underway.
During an August 16 spacewalk outside the International Space Station, Flight Engineers Fyodor Yurchikhin and Alexander Misurkin -- wearing Russian Orlan spacesuits -- installed equipment for the arrival of a new Russian module and completed prep work for the installation later this year of an optical telescope.
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden put a new spin on teaching at the 17th annual GLOBE Partners Meeting at the University of Maryland University College.
A flexible woven fabric heat shield is being tested at Ames Research Center.
NASA and the Navy invited the media to check out key testing of splashdown recovery operations for the agency's Orion spacecraft at Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia.
Sierra Nevada Corporation's Dream Chaser flight vehicle went through a series of ground tests on the concrete runways at Dryden Flight Research Center.
NASA's Associate Administrator for Space Technology Mike Gazarik was the keynote speaker at this year's Small Satellite Conference at the Utah State University in Logan on August 12.
Remote plant production technology for NASA's deep space habitat prototype was demonstrated at Kennedy Space Center by student developers from the University of Colorado-Boulder.
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