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Rumor Mill Churns With NASA's Upcoming Announcement

This past Wednesday, NASA announced they have scheduled a press conference for next Wednesday, May 14, at 1 p.m. EDT, to reveal the discovery of an object in our galaxy that astronomers have been hunting for more than 50 years. This gives everyone an entire week to speculate, ruminate and in some cases go off the deep end about what the announcement will entail. On the internet the conjecture goes from logical (intermediate or supermassive black holes) to wacko (aliens, Planet X, or something to do with the Mayan calendar) to hilarious (the Death Star or socks lost in the dryer.)

NASA's Educational Game Proposal Deadline Extended

NASA MMO Team writes "Due to the additional time required to respond to the number of questions that were raised during the NASA Massively Multiplayer Online Educational Game RFP Briefing held on April 21, 2008 in Baltimore, MD, we have decided to extend the RFP Proposal response date to Monday, July 21, 2008 at 12:00 midnight EDT. ... Please contact the NASA Learning Technologies Project Office at mmo@nasa.gov with any additional questions." (NASA has set up a site with additional information on the NASA MMO Education Game project, too.)

NASA Targets GLAST Launch for June 7

Contact: Katherine Trinidad of NASA Headquarters, Washington, +1- 202-358-3749, katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov; George H. Diller of NASA Kennedy Space Center, Fla., +1-321-867-2468, george.h.diller@nasa.gov; Rob Gutro of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., +1-301-286-4044, robert.j.gutro@nasa.gov

NASA, NIA Announce NASA Education Television Partnership

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA Deputy Administrator Shana Dale announced Wednesday the launch of NASA Education TV (NASA eTV), a partnership with the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) to produce new educational television programs for distribution on NASA Television and the Internet.

Send Your Name to the Moon on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

Lro_trailer NASA is taking names to send to the moon on a microchip on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, slatted to launch this fall. LRO, built at NASA Goddard in Maryland, is set to be NASA's first major mission as America returns to the moon. NASA links to a website with the press release and a 30-second video of two young guys in an office. 20 bonus points for attempting to use humor (keep it up NASA) and reach out to an 18+ audience. It may not be their best work, but we'll take anything at this point. (Hint: next time get someone else to do the soundtrack.) The person who dared to get this through should still be commended. Now do more.

Lockheed Martin and NASA Ames Team Selected to Design New Solar Mission

PALO ALTO, Calif., June 3 /PRNewswire/ -- The Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, and a national and international team of co-investigators have been selected by NASA to undertake a $750 thousand six-month study to design a new NASA Small Explorer Mission called the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS). In the recent announcement, NASA selected six missions for study. Two of them will eventually be chosen to move forward to development, with each mission capped at $105 million.

NASA to Discuss Phoenix Mission Upcoming Mars Landing

Contact: Dwayne Brown, Headquarters, Washington, +1-202-358- 1726, dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov, or Guy Webster, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., +1-818-354-5011, guy.webster@jpl.nasa.gov, both of NASA

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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has a scoop on the end of its Robotic Arm. A motor-driven rasp can be lowered at an angle through a small opening in the bottom of the scoop to aid in gathering shavings of hard-frozen material. In this image, Lori Shiraishi, an engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, inspects the scoop while the spacecraft was being assembled and tested before its Aug. 4, 2007, launch. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin

NASA Awards Information Management and Communications Support Contract

Contact: Sonja Alexander, NASA Headquarters, Washington, +1-202- 358-1761, sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov, or Candrea Thomas, NASA Kennedy Space Center, Fla., +1-321-867-2468, candrea.k.thomas@nasa.gov

NASA Gives Go for Space Shuttle Launch on May 31

Contact: Katherine Trinidad of NASA Headquarters, Washington, +1- 202-358-3749, katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov; or Candrea Thomas of NASA's Kennedy Space Center, +1-321-867-2468, candrea.k.thomas@nasa.gov

NASA Extends Space Station Contract With ARES Corp.

Contact: Michael Curie of NASA Headquarters, Washington, +1-202- 358-4715, michael.curie@nasa.gov, or Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters of NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, +1-281-483-5111, nicole.cloutier- 1@nasa.gov

NASA Awards Marshall Operations Support Services Contract

Contact: Sonja Alexander of NASA Headquarters, Washington, +1- 202-358-1761, sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov; or Angela Storey of NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala., +1-256-544-0632, angela.d.storey@nasa.gov

NASA Awards USRA Contract for Science and Technology Support

Contact: Grey Hautaluoma of NASA Headquarters, Washington, +1- 202-358-0668, grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov; or Katherine K. Martin of NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, +1-216-433-2406, katherine.k.martin@nasa.gov

NASA Awards Snow and Ice Distributed Active Archive Contract

Contact: Steve Cole of NASA Headquarters, Washington, +1-202-358- 0918, stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov; or Cynthia M. O'Carroll of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., +1-301-286-4647, cynthia.m.ocarroll@nasa.gov

NASA Does a U-Turn, Opens To Private Industry

mattnyc99 writes "Popular Mechanics is reporting that NASA — faced with the looming retirement of the space shuttle, and planning for longer missions like the one to Mars we've been discussing — is looking to free up its budget and depend a lot more on private space startups to carry key payloads into orbit in the next few years. For an agency so steeped in bureaucracy, it seems like everyone from NASA chief Mike Griffin to contracted officials to the key players in this in-depth podcast roundtable is finally acknowledging that commercial rocketeering (space tourists aside) is a more efficient a means of getting back into space for NASA. Quoting: 'Because of a new focus for NASA's strategic investments — not to mention incentives like the Ansari X Prize, which spurred the space-tourism business, and the Google Lunar X Prize, which c

NASA Tests Lunar Robots and Spacesuits on Earthly Moonscape

WASHINGTON, June 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Conditions on the moon will be harsher, but prototype NASA robotic vehicles braved sand storms and unprecedented temperature swings this month on sand dunes near Moses Lake, Wash., to prepare for future lunar expeditions. Teams from seven NASA centers and several universities conducted the tests from June 2-13. "The goal was to gain hands-on experience with specific technical challenges anticipated when humans return to the moon by 2020, begin to explore the lunar surface, and set up outposts," said Test Director Bill Bluethmann of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA's Human Robotic Systems Project, part of the agency's Exploration Technology Development Program, focused on human and robotic mobility systems for the moon, but also looked at communication and command and control syste

NASA Remains Silent on Rocket That Could Rescue the Cape: Why Doesn't NASA Want It

It's the rocket NASA won't talk about -- but proponents insist it could change everything. If built, they say, it could get America back on the moon faster and cheaper than anything NASA is designing -- and save thousands of jobs in Florida.

Biggest Little Announcement in NASA History

Last week NASA issued a press release promising that on May 14th, they would "Announce the discovery of an object in our Galaxy astronomers have been hunting for more than 50 years." Alexis Madrigal, who live-blogged the announcement for Wired.com, will attempt to make you care.

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Artist's concept of NASA's Solar Probe spacecraft making its daring pass toward the sun, where it will study the forces that create solar wind. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL.

The NASA spacecraft Phoenix has landed near Mars' north pole, a source in NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory...

LOS ANGELES, May 26 (Itar-Tass) -- The NASA spacecraft Phoenix has landed near Mars' north pole, a source in NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, told Itar-Tass on Sunday.

NASA Sets Briefing on New Space Station National Lab Partners

NASA will hold a briefing at 11 a.m. EDT, Friday, May 30, to discuss new opportunities to use the International Space Station's unique research environment. The briefing will originate from NASA's Kennedy Space Center and be broadcast live on NASA Television.

NASA Sets Briefing on New Space Station National Lab Partners

NASA will hold a briefing at 11 a.m. EDT, Friday, May 30, to discuss new opportunities to use the International Space Station's unique research environment. The briefing will originate from NASA's Kennedy Space Center and be broadcast live on NASA Television.

NASA Flips for Petaflops

NASA is collaborating with Intell and SGI to create one of the world's fastest supercomputers whose power will be measured in petaflops. By 2009 the US space agency wants to develop a computational system that will be able to do 1,000 trillion calculations per second. And by 2012 it hopes to have boosted the power of this machine to 10 petaflops, to help with modelling and simulation. NASA's Advanced Supercomputing Division is calling the new project Pleiades, and it will be installed at the Ames Research Center in California, the site of its current supercomputer, Columbia, pictured here. The new computer would put NASA on the list of the top five fastest number crunchers in the world.

Rumor: Trioxide Gadget Lets You Play Xbox 360, PS3, Wii on Your PC

This rumor comes from the same leaky survey site that provided the Xbox 360 Avatar rumor and the WiiFit-like balance board rumor, so it may or may not be legit. Supposedly there's a company working on a device called Trioxide which, according to Kotaku, allows "the ability to play the latest console games (ie Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, etc) on your PC." The only way we can see this as working is on a really powerful PC with really optimized emulation software, which takes years and years to develop. In other words, it seems really unlikely, and could be something someone cooked up for a survey. [Kotaku]

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