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  • Lightning at Kennedy Space Center

    Weather Forecasters Balance Experience with Technology

    03.19.12 - Meteorologists have to be precise in their forecasts, keeping in mind a successful mission depends on their call.

  • Senator Mikulski is at picture center, STScI Director Matt Mountain at her right, and STScI Deputy Director Kathryn Flanagan at her left

    Astronomical Database Named for Sen. Mikulski

    04.06.12 - The archive is named in honor of the United States Senator from Maryland for her career-long achievements and for becoming the longest-serving woman in U.S. Congressional history.

  • Bob Meyer portrait

    After 40 Years, NASA's Bob Meyer Calls it a Career

    03.09.12 - Described by his peers as "one of Dryden's most influential driving forces," NASA Dryden engineer and program manager Bob Meyer flies into retirement.

  • Women @ NASA

    NASA Unveils 2012 Women@NASA Honorees

    03.08.12 - NASA has expanded the Women@NASA program with a second round of honorees to showcase at its website.

  • Technician coats tile with ceramic coating.

    Tile Makers Creating Orion Shield

    03.06.12 - Workers recently began cutting and coating the first tiles that will protect an Orion spacecraft during re-entry.

  • Artist's concept of the Pioneer 10 spacecraft above Jupiter

    Ames Celebrates the 40th Anniversary of Pioneer 10

    02.29.12 - Launched on March 2, 1972, Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to travel through the asteroid belt, and the first spacecraft to obtain close-up images of Jupiter.

  • Mercury-Atlas 6 lifts off.

    Glenn Launch Highlighted Changing World

    02.17.12 - John Glenn's flight set NASA on course to make continued strides that would carry men to the moon seven years later.

  • John Glenn, official portrait, 1959

    Researcher Recalls Glenn, Friendship 7

    02.16.12 - Retired researcher Bill Scallion and photographer Fred Jones recall John Glenn and the Mercury 7 astronauts.

  • Legendary Ames engineer H. Julian

    NASA Ames Helped Bring Project Mercury Home

    2.16.12 - As the nation celebrates the 50th anniversary of American orbital flight, it's important to remember NASA Ames played a key role in Project Mercury.

  • NASA 911, one of two modified Boeing 747s that were modified for use as Shuttle Carrier Aircraft for the space shuttles, lands at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale Feb. 8 after its final flight

    NASA Shuttle Carrier Aircraft 911's Final Flight

    02.10.12 - One of NASA's two space shuttle carrier aircraft to be retired after final hop from Edwards AFB to he Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale.

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