NASA also accepts proposals for competitively selected Discovery Program Missions of Opportunity.

After more than twenty organizations submitted proposals to NASA for the display of an orbiter, NASA announced that Enterprise will go to New York's Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, Discovery will go the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center of the National Air and Space Museum, Atlantis will remain in the Visitor Complex at Kennedy Space Center, and Endeavour will go to the California Science Center in Los Angeles ,.

NASA officials warned Gold that if he testified his concerns before Congress, his research proposals would lose their support from NASA.

Though these proposals lost out to the Infrared Astronomical Satellite ( IRAS ), their strength made NASA further explore the idea.

The Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project ( BPP ) was a research project funded by NASA from 1996 through 2002, to study various proposals for " revolutionary " methods of spacecraft propulsion which would require breakthroughs in physics before they could be realized, hence the name.

NASA did, however, have proposals for water-launched rockets ( the Sea Dragon and Nova ).

NASA budget cuts eventually doomed the Grand Tour missions in 1972, as well as later proposals for a " mini grand tour ".

NASA solicited proposals for CCDev in October 2010, under which ULA made a proposal for funding to " finish designing a key safety system for potential commercial crew launches on its Atlas and Delta rocket fleet.

NASA receives and evaluates both solicited and unsolicited grant proposals.

NASA also has proposals of using the Ares V as the main booster to launch the manned Orion Asteroid Mission to an orbiting Near-Earth Asteroid.

* 1996 – NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.

" While NASA went ahead with planning for Apollo, funding for the program was far from certain given Eisenhower's ambivalent attitude to manned spaceflight.

It was also clear NASA would soon outgrow its practice of controlling missions from its Cape Canaveral Air Force Station launch facilities in Florida, so a new Mission Control Center would be included in the MSC.

* ( Part 1 ) NASA film on the Apollo 16 mission from the Internet Archive

* ( Part 2 ) NASA film on the Apollo 16 mission from the Internet Archive

* 2002 – The last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10.

Monthly global images from NASA Earth Observatory

The Mansfield Amendment, the end of the Vietnam War, and the end of the Apollo program reduced ARC's funding from ARPA and NASA.

* Latest El Niño / La Niña Data from NASA

The " FAQ " is an Internet textual tradition originating from the technical limitations of early mailing lists from NASA in the early 1980s.

ABC News said the same month that unnamed climate scientists from NASA, Stanford, and Princeton who spoke to ABC about the report dismissed it as " fabricated nonsense.

Its membership includes equivalent-level officials from the departments of state, commerce, and homeland security, the joint chiefs of staff, and NASA.

Harrison Hagan " Jack " Schmitt ( born July 3, 1935 ) is an American geologist, a retired NASA astronaut, university professor, and a former U. S. senator from New Mexico.

In August 1975, Schmitt resigned from NASA to seek election as a Republican to the United States Senate representing New Mexico.

Aeroponic techniques have been given special attention from NASA since a mist is easier to handle than a liquid in a zero gravity environment.

So far the only benefits of this type have been " spin-off " technologies which were developed for space missions and then were found to be at least as useful in other activities ( NASA publicizes spin-offs from its activities ).

The US Atomic Energy Commission and NASA tested a few designs from 1959 to 1968.

A NASA multi-center Technology Applications Assessment Team led from the Johnson Spaceflight Center, has as of January 2011 described " Nautilus-X ", a concept study for a multi-mission space exploration vehicle useful for missions beyond low earth orbit ( LEO ), of up to 24 months duration for a crew of up to six.

* 2005 – STS-114: NASA grounds the Space Shuttle, pending an investigation of the continuing problem with the shedding of foam insulation from the external fuel tank.

JPL is a federally funded research and development center ( FFRDC ) managed and operated by Caltech under a contract from NASA.

In the early 1980s a group of researchers interested in the history of Iram used NASA remote sensing satellites, ground penetrating radar, Landsat program data and images taken from the Space Shuttle Challenger as well as SPOT data to identify old camel train routes and points where they converged.

* A good video introduction to Lunar Eclipses from NASA

Leonids as seen from space in 1997, NASA

On July 31, 2008, NASA announced that the Phoenix lander confirmed the presence of water on Mars, as predicted in 2002 based on data from the Odyssey orbiter.

In 2002 a Japanese group propelled a tiny aluminium airplane by using a laser to vaporize a water droplet clinging to it, and in 2003 NASA researchers flew an 11 ounce ( 312 g ) model airplane with a propeller powered with solar panels illuminated by a laser.

NASA researchers at Glenn Research Center conducting tests on aircraft engine noise in 1967

In 2010, nearly forty years after the 1971 loss of signal from Lunokhod 1, the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter photographed its tracks and final location, and researchers, using a telescopic pulsed-laser rangefinder, detected the robot's retroreflector.

Subsequently, Bondar led an international team of researchers at NASA for more than a decade, examining data obtained from astronauts on space missions to better understand the mechanisms underlying the body's ability to recover from exposure to space.

* NOAA and NASA researchers announce the ozone hole over Antarctica has grown markedly smaller since last year and has broken into two, due to warmer temperatures.

On February 21, 2008 it was announced that NASA and researchers at McGill University had discovered a neutron star with the properties of a radio pulsar which emitted some magnetically-powered bursts, like a magnetar.

NASA, in conjunction with Scientists from United States Geological Survey ( USGS ) and the National Snow and Ice Data Center ( NSIDC ), is developing a global inventory of all the world's glaciers to help researchers track each glacier's history.

After the investigation, NASA researchers at Langley Research Center modified a Boeing 737-200 as a testbed for an on-board Doppler weather radar.

NASA researchers used advanced image processing technology to enhance the recording by reducing image jitter.

Other asteroid researchers called it a " mistake " and Marsden himself admitted the announcement was a strategy which needed " rethinking ", and NASA asked astronomers not to sound a public alarm like that again but to communicate with each other.

A number of fragments were recovered and studied by researchers from U of C, UWO, and NASA ; the meteorite currently resides in the University of Alberta meteorite collection.

Unlike NASA, ZERO-G is governed under Part 121 of FAA regulations ( as are all US commercial passenger and cargo airlines ) enabling the company to cater to both tourists and researchers alike.

The GFAJ-1 bacterium was found by NASA researchers at Mono Lake in California.

* NASA researchers can hear what you're saying, even when you don't make a sound

Consequently, NASA researchers are developing an alternative sterilization method, a low-temperature, vapor-phase, hydrogen peroxide-based sterilization process.

The present form ( with sulfuric acid electrolytes ) was patented by the University of New South Wales in Australia in 1986 An earlier German Patent on a titanium chloride flow battery was registered and granted in July 1954 to Dr. Walter Kangro, but most of the development of flow batteries was carried out by NASA researchers in the 1970s.

Although the use of vanadium in batteries had been suggested earlier by Pissoort, by NASA researchers and by Pellegri and Spaziante in 1978, the first known successful demonstration and commercial development of the all-vanadium redox flow battery employing vanadium in a solution of sulfuric acid in each half was by Maria Skyllas-Kazacos and co-workers at the University of New South Wales in the 1980s.

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