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Your day feel shorter? Blame Chile's earthquake
The earthquake that struck Chile was so powerful that it appears to have jolted Earth's axis into a new position and increased our planet's rotation speed. Calculations by a research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory indicate the earthquake...
Schoolboy from Germany finds fault in NASA's prediction
NASA predicted that the Apophis asteroid has about a 1 in 45,000 chance of hitting the Earth in 2029 when it will to pass by the Earth at a distance of around 32,500 kilometers. Apophis first became an object of attention in December 2004 when the asteroid...
NASA aeronautics offers university scholarships
Press Release - NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate will accept applications from undergraduate and graduate students between Feb. 22 and Mar. 17, 2008, for its fall 2008 scholarship program. The purpose of this new scholarship program is...
NASA to study moon's structure, evolution
The U.S. space agency announced plans for a study to determine the moon's structure and its evolutionary history. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Associate Administrator for Science Alan Stern said the $375 million Gravity Recovery...
NASA presents its annual Pecora awards
The U.S. space agency has given its 2007 Pecora Awards to the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment and Stanley Morain of the University of New Mexico. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the U.S. Department of the Interior present...
NASA set for last shuttle launch of 2007
U.S. space agency crews were busy Wednesday at the Kennedy Space Center, preparing for the fourth and final space shuttle launch of 2007. From astronauts practicing shuttle landings to engineers and technicians running tests on space shuttle Atlantis...
'Exciting' project may not get to space
The upcoming launch of a laboratory to the International Space Station has been clouded by NASA's failure to deliver a device to study the universe's origins. The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer was developed by 500 physicists during a 12-year period...
NASA has lifted a temporary ban on spacewalks after investigating a report of a smoky odor during tests of a spacesuit last week. A spokeswoman said engineers believe the odor probably came from a canister containing a metal oxide used to absorb the...
Ground broken for new test launch pad
A new launch pad being built in New Mexico will host the first escape systems tests for NASA's Orion capsule, the successor to the space shuttle. The new pad, based at the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range near Las Cruces, will be the site for...
Smell of smoke halts space walks
NASA barred spacewalks while experts search for the source of a smoky smell in a space suit worn during a ground test in Houston, officials said Tuesday. Initial examinations haven't found evidence of burning in the test suit, air filters and other...
