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It's obviously a little bit of tongue in cheek towards NASA, if somebody knows it is an American song, especially if patriotic for America.

NASA officials say as of now, the tore solar wing is stable and seems to be delivering all of its power.

Scientists, inside and outside of NASA, see that the Nibiru theory is an attempt to frighten people.

NASA faces a year 2010 deadline for completing the building of the orbiting space station and of retiring the shuttles.

Said Peggy Whitson, head of the NASA astronaut office: "We weren't going to ask him to command if he didn't want to. "

NASA has announced that it found a "significant amount" of water on the moon as a result of the LCROSS impact last month.

They stand at 90 degrees from the surface they coat, which Nasa scientists have referred to as looking like shag-pile carpet.

CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: After his NASA years, Neil Armstrong settled into a quiet life of teaching and business, away from public attention.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said the goal is to make full use of the space station as "the national lab it was envisioned to be. "

The technology NASA developed for this system has already been used for quick water purification after the 2004 Asian tsunami, Edeen said.

No one seems to know for sure. But an official of the American space agency NASA says the expression just grew.

The oil slick covers thousands of square miles and is big enough to be easily seen from space by NASA satellites.

But believe it or not, there have been stranger things to pop up in NASA? s launch history.

NASA's Ames Research Center [the home of Kepler's science operations] had not done a science mission like this one.

NASA's future is so uncertain and everything in space seems to be in constant need of repair.

In Huston, NASA officials are trying to figure out how a contractor got past security with a pistol.

But, NASA took advantage of these flybys. The surface chemistry of the dark side of the moon was compared to the light side.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said the legislation supports the president's plan for innovation and discovery in space.

Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have found a likely solution to a centuries-old riddle of the night sky.

NASA's newest telescope, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), may be able to answer the question about Nemesis once and for all.

As he wrestled with the decision over whether to leave NASA, the Obama administration made the decision to scrap Constellation and Ares I.

Nasa chief Sean O'Keefe congratulated mission officials while scientists jumped up-and-down in jubilation.

So I called up the guys at NASA and I said, I need to know where to fax some documents.

However, the Sun's geographic tilt is irrelevant to its magnetic field, which remains static regardless of what NASA might state.

Description: Remember the excitement as you watched the coverage of those early NASA achievements in the great Space Race?

He said the Chinese challenge could serve as a "fear factor" to energize the efforts of NASA and its space partners.

The flare peaked early Tuesday and created a large cloud that appeared to cover almost half the surface of the sun, NASA said.

On their first day or two in space, some astronauts feel queasy, a condition referred to in Nasa-speak as "stomach awareness" .

After a year of no contact from the Spirit rover, last seen inside a crater on Mars' surface, Nasa is preparing to give up the search.

Atlantis is centered over elements of the NASA emblem depicting how the space shuttle has been at the heart of NASA for the last 30 years.

With the news that the White House has canceled the Constellation Program, NASA seems to be moving out of the human space flight business.

Today NASA launched a suborbital rocket, but had to shoot it out of the sky due to alleged "launch failure. "

In a mission status report, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter resumed science operations on Tuesday.

"Erosion seems to be slower, " said David Kass, a Mars atmospheric scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

In contrast, SpaceX will be ready to transport astronauts within three years of receiving a NASA contract, at a price per seat of $20m.

If Dr. Reisman had stayed at NASA, he would have had a chance to fly again, but he decided to move on.

Nasa compared the challenge to trying to see the markings on a football 40 miles away.

NASA is also employing one of its two ground rovers, the Opportunity, to try to listen for a weak signal from the silent satellite.

That both these articles emerged on the same date shows that NASA is trying to use media access to foist their lies on the public.

NASA is saying that this is "life as we do not know it" .

NASA is not involved in any sort of cover up about alien life on this planet or anywhere in the universe.

It was the responsibility of NASA's managers to hear those suspicions, and from top to bottom they failed.

NASA's partners do not appear ready to commit the resources that would be needed to fill the gap should the US pull out.

It is also dependent on NASA's desire for a daylight takeoff so it can observe how much debris flies off the shuttle's external fuel tank.

Nasa says the image is a classic example of a solar prominence (also known as a filament when viewed against the solar disk).

Half the group was lucky enough to get out of bed for an hour a day to spin around in the NASA Short-Range Human Centrifuge.

You know him better as the first human to step onto the surface of the moon, but in 1960, Neil Armstrong was a test pilot for NASA.

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has imaged a wild creature of the dark -- a coiled galaxy with an eye-like object at its center.

NASA's WISE explorer is going to be searching the sky for infrared objects over the next 9 months.

What NASA decided to do was to get out of the low Earth orbit business.

It could take hundreds of years, but such a mission, Dr. Marcy said, could jolt NASA out of its doldrums.

NASA is also employing one of its two ground rover , the Opportunity, to try to listen for a weak signal from the silent satellite.

But occasionally, NASA helps us all take a step back to see the big picture of our place in the solar system and universe.

The Solar Dynamics Observatory is now NASA's best eye on the sun, with a resolution far-exceeding any previous telescope.

Congradulations to NASA, that after only 5 years of manipulating the data, they finally found a correlation to Einstein's theory.

NASA informed me that they had chosen me to attend their special astronautics training program at the Kennedy Space Center!

Dr. Masson, who obtained copies of a single photograph from her NASA sources, says the space agency's next move "will be most revealing. "

Data from NASA's Cassini probe analyzed the complex chemistry on the surface of Titan - the only moon known to have a dense atmosphere.

The sea ice estimates from the National Snow and Ice Data Center, NASA's archive for sea ice data, assume that this hole is ice-filled.

NASA scientists said the lunar crater they hit was actually wetter than some of the driest deserts on Earth.

A Nasa lander near the planet's north pole was scanning the sky with a laser when it noticed the telltale signs of snowfall.

No injuries or damage have been reported on land, which NASA officials said was a good indication the satellite went into the ocean.

You know, we'll basically give NASA the addresses, the names and addresses, of the most likely candidates for Earth-like planets.

In the meantime, a little more than a year after having started it, NASA quietly dropped its personal air vehicle programme.

In all, this was a busy, but exciting day for us here on the NASA. gov team as we provided this special coverage of the event.

Measuring the Hubble constant was one of the three major goals for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope before it was launched in 1990.

To understand the Sun and its effects on Earth, NASA has 17 missions, including STEREO, observing the Sun.

"It will be weeks at least before the true magnitude of these clouds are known, " Nasa said in an alert message.

"I'm going to call NASA, " I said firmly.

(CNN) -- Mars rocks robotically examined by the rover Opportunity were formed at the bottom of a salty sea, NASA scientists said Tuesday.

So NASA track Planet X since the first view. Trying to estimate timings.

It may involve a rather mundane announcement by NASA of the discovery of primitive extraterrestrial life in the form of microbes.

NASA will pick probably two or three companies for this task in 2010, heralding the dawn of a new era in human spaceflight.

The strategy we had when I worked at Rice University and NASA was that we incorporated technology into those standards in a seamless way.

Given the vastness of the universe, and all the places NASA could have targeted for study, that would certainly appear to be the case.

Few are suggesting that NASA be eliminated, but such questions reflect the struggle for purpose that it has had since the end of Apollo.

Giant, Earth-sized UFOs have appeared before around the Sun and have been monitored and recorded by NASA's Stereo spacecraft.

MIT was the only university to lead one of the six U. S. teams that won contracts from NASA in October 2008.

NASA officials say as of now, the torn solar wing is stable and seems to be delivering all its power.

John Rummel, director of the NASA astrobiology program, said the program is changing the way people think about life on Earth and beyond.

NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer satellite, or IBEX, discovered the narrow ribbon, which completes nearly a full circle across the sky.

But the decision to scrap Nasa's plans for a permanent return has left the door open for other countries.

An image released by NASA shows the Heart and Soul nebulae in an infrared mosaic from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE.

The budget proposed for NASA in May is not sufficient to pursue human space exploration beyond low-Earth orbit, he said.

And if that is the case, the eternally difficult question of what NASA is for will soon have to be asked again.

Over the next year, NASA will celebrate 50 years of scientific and technological excellence.

NASA says a chipped thermal tile on Shuttle Discovery does not appear to be a serious problem based on what engineers have seen so far.

In other words, with the status quo, NASA simply cannot afford to stay on track - something's got to give.

VPL thrived for a while, selling 1. 3m basic data gloves to Mattel, a toymaker, and a smaller number of high-end gloves to NASA and IBM.

NASA said the mission will survey salinity at the ocean's surface in "the most detailed summary of conditions ever undertaken. "

NASA had hoped to minimize the gap, but additional funding to do so has not been approved by the U. S. Congress.

NASA's Personal Satellite Assistant possesses none of these things; instead it uses small fans to propel itself through zero gravity.

NASA mechanics are trying to fix a problem with space shuttle Atlantis electricity system.

Retired Nasa scientist Dr William Grant, believes that vitamin D deficiency was the underlying cause of his poor health and early death.

It's been used in several academic programs, such as the above mentioned UC Davis course, and by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

But the space hotel visionary behind that company seems a bit busy also helping out NASA at the moment.

So anyone over the age of 11 has already lived through such a solar maximum, with no harm, according to NASA.

A recent report said NASA might be able to reach the moon by 2028, but would not be able to land.

For the first time in its history, NASA has decided to turn over the transport of space-station cargo to the commercial sector.

The researchers hope that Nasa observational missions might prove this new theory within a year.

NASA says the debris was a small piece of an old spacecraft motor which passed within three miles of the station.

NASA has unveiled plans to put a robot on the moon for a fraction of the cost of sending a human.

In fact, Earth has already started to slow significantly on her orbital path and a fact not being reported by NASA.

By canceling Ares I, NASA would have no backup if the commercial companies were not able to deliver.

In addition, dwarf corn plants, developed for NASA, take up far less room than ordinary corn and grow to a height of just two or three feet.

NASA, Russia and their space stationpartners are not the only countries launching humans off the planet.

NASA considered this fifth and final Hubble repair mission so dangerous that, in 2004, a year after the Columbia tragedy, it was canceled.

NASA then began moving Discovery from its assembly building to the launch pad, after a delay of at least two hours.

Nasa released images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope which revealed some unusual and colourful changes to the surface of Pluto.

The Esa-Nasa mission was the first to survey the environment in space above and below the poles of the Sun.

The debris has no toxic contamination, but there could be sharp edges, NASA officials have said.

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander1 has taken its first-ever picture of a single particle of rusty Martian dust with one of its microscopes.

NASA is not the only government entity looking to certify space vehicles for commercial flights.

On August 4th, though, NASA announced the strongest evidence yet for the existence of liquid water on the surface.

NASA weather officers had expected bad weather to possibly delay the mission, but the storm system did not affect the launch pad.

"This is a chance for NASA to come clean with the public and tell us everything it knows, " she said.

Aware of Lovelock' s skills, NASA asked him in 1961 to help devise ways of detecting life on Mars.

Thursday was an important test of this capability for the team here and overall, it went really well.

Unfortunately, NASA has no current plans to send a probe crashing through the ice anytime soon.

Rundle said QuakeSim, a joint project between NASA and several other institutions, is developing such a forecasting methodology.

Such a view was recently beamed back by NASA's Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft.

NASA has delayed Wednesday's scheduled landing after engineers spotted an object that may have accidentally flown out of its Cargo Bay.

NASA satellites have been tracking the growth of the oil spill as it has spread towards the northern Gulf Coast.

A few years later engineers at the NASA Glenn Research Center (then known as Lewis) built the first operating electric rocket.

The only other race the blood elves get along with are the nasa who left the seas to join them in Outland.

It was not until a decade ago that Nasa started taking an interest in the substance and putting it to a more practical use.

The orbiter unexpectedly rebooted its computer on June 3, and engineers brought it out of standby mode on June 6, NASA said.

One notable example of this was testing NASA's website used to stream video of the space shuttle launch.

NASA on Saturday showed sharp images of what appeared to be ice exposed under the lander.

NASA says Discovery is in good shape, even though a piece of fabric is still sticking out from some thermal tiles.

The source code that NASA was using was available, fulfilling at least one definition of the term "open source. "

on the moon, but perhaps more to the point , NASA says, ATHLETE is almost equally suited to the next frontier: Mars.

So far NASA is exploring two options for propulsion there ? a nuclear thermal rocket and a chemical engine.

It is possible another NASA employee will rewrite them or waive them for you.

So, finally, at the end, we can see the thing followed its sort of design path right up to 1965. And then all those paths came to a halt.

And it's here deep down under the water that NASA is giving people stress tests to help astronauts way way up in space.

Such technology may not see action for some years to come, or at least until NASA sorts out its space exploration plans.

Something the size of Nasa's UARS satellite is seen to enter uncontrolled perhaps once a year.

This new spacecraft is NASA's first step forward in its next great leap, as the U. S. space shuttle program heads into retirement.

"President Obama challenged us to be bold and dream big, " Mr. Bolden, the NASA chief and a former astronaut, said in a statement.

The Navajo elder's comments were brief. The NASA official asked the son if he would translate what his father had said. But he refused.

An optimistic goal, one NASA officials are trying to meet.

The program was never recognized by NASA and now, at the age of 72, Funk, a professional pilot, is still waiting.

Michael Wargo, chief lunar scientist at NASA headquarters, said the impact released "fluffy, snow-covered dirt. "

For best viewing, NASA recommends sky watchers look to the darkest parts of the sky.

NASA has responded to requests for kosher meals before and has even provided vegetarian meals -- at least for short-term visits.

NASA scientists might have been yodeling for joy in March when they saw the first-ever picture of active landslides occurring on Mars.

In the rendering that NASA released, the planet is barely visible, just a circular smudge of brown and orange.

McDaniel agreed that the targets drive things, citing the general decline of pure technology development research at NASA.

The president of Turkey wanted the Obama administration to let a Turkish astronaut sit in on a NASA space flight.

It's a dirty job, but two NASA spacecraft are ready to do it.

NASA's Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) satellites have provided the first three-dimensional images of the sun.

So far $9million has been spent on the programme, and NASA is watching closely to see how it pans out.

The comparison NASA and its contractors prefer is that of the postal service and commercial airlines.

NASA televised live images of the LCROSS as it crashed into a crater near the moon's south pole.

'We are not interested in slowing down the launch of NASA's new spacecraft, ' he said.

NASA did not specify future commercial air transportation needs as domestic or global.

A whirlpool-like spiral galaxy is being distorted by the gravitational pull of a neighbor in a new photo from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

When he announced that 1998 was the warmest year on record, it was front-page news. The only problem is that NASA's "facts" were wrong.

NASA has been trying to keep an eye on space junk since 1979, but the small bits can't be tracked with current technologies.

In the early 1960s Lovelock came up with a radical proposal that irked the rest of the folks on the NASA probe team.

Its cargo bay was designed to hold spy satellites, although the American military maintains its own space operation (see article).

Hoagland argued that the equipment NASA used to take the subsequent photos wasn't as accurate as the Viking equipment.

Once the program gets underway, NASA hopes to be able to fly those missions as often as once per week.

As the President considers which of NASA's dreams to shatter and which to back, the water issue could be a turning point.

A new image from NASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes looks more like an abstract painting than a cosmic snapshot.

That should allow NASA to transport a much greater number of astronauts and to get much more use out of the space station.

The U. S. portion of the outpost was designated a National Laboratory in 2005 to open its facilities for use by non-NASA researchers.

They're big and fast and fly in space, but NASA's space shuttles are far from being shiny white spaceships straight off the factory floor.

Like pretty much every other agency in the government, NASA is likely to be hurting for money over the next few years.

But NASA is saying that it's a reminder that they needs to be close monitoring of this kind of thing.

In practice, the distinction is not always so clear-cut: NASA has done plenty of work for the Pentagon.

And NASA expects a dead satellite to fall to Earth within the next few days.

SpaceX already has a billion-and-a-half-dollar deal with NASA to use a smaller rocket to transport cargo to the International Space Station.

NASA's Fermi spacecraft has discovered a pair of enormous gamma-ray-emitting bubbles extending from the Milky Way's center.

One of NASA's current projects involves cutting down on sodium levels in space food.

But those are all the roads in the U. S. superimposed on top of a NASA geospatial image.

UNDAUNTED by NASA's cool response to its interest in the International Space Station, China is going it alone.

NASA has always been silent on the subject of sex in space -- which makes people all the more curious.

NASA's spokesman says a four inch gap in the heat-protecting blanket is not expected to interfere with the shuttle's Mission.

After such a dramatic blooper, you'd think that NASA would give it up, but they are still trying to edit the C3 images at that location!

Looking homeward in its long journey to Jupiter, NASA's Juno spacecraft offered up this rare view of our home planet with its moon.

They will play their roles until the end, just as NASA will deny the presence of a rogue planet in the inner solar system.

The amount of a moderate-to-severe snow melting of an area equivalent to the size of California.

A mock-up of the Orion space capsule is loaded into a hangar at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.

However, NASA's recently approved 2011 budget has left the door open to an additional shuttle flight in June.

I had a position at an ecological research institute and got to run supercomputers at Nasa and Oxford, which was fun.

NASA hopes Ares I-X will signal the beginning of a brave new era for space exploration.

He began signaling intended changes at his Senate confirmation hearing (see plans for NASA below).

They knew they were ideal candidates, but NASA regulations kept them out of the game, " said Kilgore. "

The answer may be found in a new theoretical model developed using data from a very deep exposure made by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.

The NASA personnel thought this was a great idea so they rustled up a tape recorder.

The Wall Street crash does not portend big budgets for what some people see as a luxury agency like NASA.

Take some NASA-developed plastic membranes, add algae and municipal waste water and float it out to sea. What have you got?

As a general rule, when NASA flies a scientific mission all the way to Mars, we expect that mission to last for a while.

Even if the Earth dodges Mercury, the blue planet eventually will be turned into an oven by the sun, says NASA planetologist Chris McKay.

NASA currently has one rover working on the surface of Mars and plans to launch another mobile geology station in November.

Despite days of worries about weather and alternative landing sites, NASA was able to use its preferred landing location.

On the day of the announcement, NASA administrator James Fletcher, left, demonstrated a model of the Space Shuttle concept to the President.

To prove the point, Nasa today revealed the image below, showing the aurora in breathtaking beauty.

NASA will assess the "Endeavour" space shuttle's launch preparations, and to determine the "Endeavour" was the final launch date.

George Xenofos, manager of NASA's Innovative Lunar Demonstrations Data program, said he expected one or more teams to make it to the Moon.

Dr. Evil would be glad to know that NASA's Mars Science Laboratory will be going to the red planet with a laser on its head.

Nasa is putting its newest technology through its paces in the Arizona desert in a bid to simulate the surface of the moon or Mars.

On Tuesday morning, NASA's Mercury Messenger took this photograph of the surface of Mercury.

"Never have people been trapped for so long so deeply, " says a doctor at NASA, the American space agency, which helped in the rescue.

The Orion , billed as the next generation of manned spacecraft , has been described by some NASA engineers as " Apollo on steroids " .

NASA officials say they will not know how to fix the wing until they determine the cause of the tear.

These craters are "really like the dusty attic of the solar system, " said Michael Wargo, the chief lunar scientist at NASA headquarters.

NASA is now poised to install newer versions of this software on the same probe and on the International Space Station.

NASA's space sciences chief Ed Weiler said the actual photos are important.

Still, NASA keeps a strategy to go there and constantly keeps up to date with new ideas.

NASA had chosen a teacher to fly in space. NASA had chosen a teacher from Concord, New Hampshire, by the name of Christa McAuliffe.

Interstellar travel won't be possible for at least 200 years, according to a former NASA propulsion scientist who has some new calculations.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a strong new line of evidence that galaxies are embedded in halos of dark matter.

LDCM is a component of the Landsat Program conducted jointly by NASA and the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) of the Department of Interior.

NASA administrator Doug Cooke said competition for the multibillion-dollar contract to build the next manned lunar spaceship was fierce.

The most detailed and amazing set of composite satellite images of the Earth ever produced, have been disclosed by Nasa scientists.

Many astronauts moved to NASA because it was the next step up the career ladder.

And on the International Space Station, commander Scott Kelly led NASA in a moment of silence for his sister-in-law, Rep.

Wolpert, a physics-trained computer scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center, has chimed in with his version of a knowledge limit.

The reorientation of NASA's planetary exploration programs is in response to a recent National Research Council report card.

NASA planned to send a spacecraft to the Sun, aiming to solve two great mysteries of astrophysics - the corona and solar wind.

NASA scientists had declared Callisto a " dead and boring moon" until the discovery of a possible salty ocean beneath its surface .

"At NASA, we provided astronauts for exploration, " he said.

NASA is also hoping that private, commercial companies will soon be able to fly astronauts to the space station in newly developed vehicles.

Internally, the office is a valuable internal resource at NASA as a pool for useful technology and innovations.

It has championship cycling and NASA engineering in its DNA, so it's likely to fill any 2-wheeled need where gasoline is not an option.

A NASA astronaut and a Japanese space flyer stepped outside the ISS to fix one of its power units.

NASA says it won't affect tonight's planned spacewalk and that astronauts will not have to move out of the way.

The White House and Congress will have the final say over where NASA will go, and what resources it will have to get there.

NASA's job was to be scientific space exploration. Its major goal was sending the first Americans into space.

Discovery swooped through a cloudy sky and landed at NASA's spaceport in mid-afternoon, a little later than initially planned.

But almost to a person, they felt that the NASA team had failed to take some basic precautions to avoid misleading results.

In the 1990s, NASA returned to the concept of inflatables for use as living quarters on a mission to Mars.

An upper layer of Earth's atmosphere recently shrank so much that researchers are at a loss to adequately explain it, NASA said.

NASA will attempt to explain the increasing blackouts and tail debris by claiming solar activity and the proliferation of space junk.

Hilary: You often said the end of the world is coming in 2012, and now NASA has verified it is totally unfounded.

NASA says the spacecraft may no longer be able to generate enough power to communicate.

All the companies -- NASA calls them "partners" not "contractors" -- are plowing new ground of a non-technical nature.

Such language allows questions to be asked such as whether it is possible to achieve more of NASA's goals with fewer human missions.

The legislation, which Obama signed in October, instructs NASA to move ahead with a new spacecraft that could land on an asteroid by 2025.

The NRC also suggests that NASA undertake a research program to find and test improved techniques within the next three years.

What they learn from all this may help us find life elsewhere in the solar system, according to a statement from NASA.

In order to guarantee the success of the mission, NASA has already prepared to make it perfect safe.

NASA has cancelled the launch of Endeavour for the fifth time Monday due to thunderstorms near the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

In trying to return to the moon, NASA has often echoed Apollo, the most popular space program ever.

A student at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, practices virtual surgery on a three-dimensional image of a rat.

Edward J. Weiler, one of the founders of NASA's astrobiology program and now chief of the agency's science division, goes even further.

'Great eruption happening on the sun now, ' Nasa scientists wrote in a Twitter post.