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.

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.

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 accepts proposals from researchers based in the United States, while the National Optical Astronomy Observatory ( NOAO ) accept proposals from researchers around the world.

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.

Guests include scientists and researchers from academic, public and private spheres ( including NASA ), popular science writers, cultural critics and ethicists focused on science.

This enables many people who work at NASA to check and evaluate functional systems overall.

The most famous experiment is probably the NASA Cosmic Background Explorer ( COBE ) satellite that orbited in 1989 – 1996 and which detected and quantified the large scale anisotropies at the limit of its detection capabilities.

Although ion engines had been developed at NASA since the late 1950s, with the exception of the SERT missions in the 1960s, the technology had not been demonstrated in flight.

The NSTAR electrostatic ion thruster, developed at NASA Glenn, achieves a specific impulse of one to three thousand seconds.

Remote Agent ( remote intelligent self-repair software )( RAX ), developed at NASA Ames Research Center and JPL, was the first artificial intelligence control system to control a spacecraft without human supervision.

Livingstone2 was flown as an experiment onboard Earth Observing 1, and an F-18 at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center.

* Remote Agent homepage at NASA Ames Research Center's Intelligent Systems Division

* Electric Propulsion at NASA JPL

Scientists at NASA and Penn State University published a paper in April 2011 addressing the question " Would contact with extraterrestrials benefit or harm humanity?

* EVM at NASA

Before joining NASA as a member of the first group of scientist-astronauts in June 1965, he worked at the U. S. Geological Survey's Astrogeology Center at Flagstaff, Arizona, developing geological field techniques that would be used by the Apollo crews.

This clearly shows how NASA use of ICBM boosters for Projects Mercury and Gemini ( blue ) served as a highly visible demonstration of confidence in reliability at a time when failure rates had been substantial.

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 NASA designs were conceived as replacements for the upper stages of the Saturn V launch vehicle, but the tests revealed reliability problems, mainly caused by the vibration and heating involved in running the engines at such high thrust levels.

Due to a shift in priorities at NASA that favored manned space missions, the project lost funding in 2005.

NASA is authorized to sterilize frozen meat for astronauts at doses of 44 kGy as a notable exception.

The operators complied with Postel's instructions, thus dividing control of Internet naming between the non-government operators with IANA and the 4 remaining U. S. Government roots at NASA, DoD, and BRL with NSI.

* 2004 – Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04: 35 UTC.

NASA also has a resident office at the facility staffed by federal managers who oversee JPL's activities and work for NASA.

* NASA DEVELOP at Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Leading up to the 1998 return, an airborne observing campaign was organized to mobilize modern observing techniques by Peter Jenniskens at NASA Ames Research Center.

NASA orbital photo of Malden Island ( north at top )

In his book Double Fold, Nicholson Baker discusses the failure of the NASA program at great length.