Author: N.A.S.A.

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NASA has signed a $335 million modification to the current International Space Station contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency for crew transportation, rescue and related services in 2013 and 2014.

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ASA has selected Deltha-Critique NSS Joint Venture of New Orleans to receive a contract for business operations and technical services at NASA’s Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif.

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Eighth grade students and children of the military community in California’s Monterey Peninsula area will speak with astronauts orbiting 220 miles above Earth on Saturday, April 10.

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Space shuttle Discovery lit up Florida’s Space Coast sky 30 minutes before sunrise Monday with a 6:21 a.m. EDT launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.

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NASA has set media accreditation deadlines for the May space shuttle flight to the International Space Station.

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In preparation for National Lab Day on May 12, NASA will host a series of weekly live webcasts during the month of April through the agency’s Digital Learning Network.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010…N_Lab_day.html

Undergraduate and graduate students who want to apply for a NASA internship or fellowship soon will have access to all of NASA’s opportunities at one Web site.

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NASA will host its first Earth Day Tweetup on the National Mall in Washington with @NASA Twitter followers and NASA scientists on April 18 at 1 p.m. EDT.

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has selected Raytheon Company of Riverdale, Md., for the Earth Observing System Data and Information System Evolution and Development contract.

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NASA set out on a monumental journey with the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope in April 1990. Since then, it has captured the minds and imaginations of people around the world.

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NASA will exercise the second of two one-year options on a five-year contract to Jacobs Technology Inc., of Tullahoma, Tenn., for test and evaluation support at NASA’s White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, N.M.

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NASA will exercise the second of two one-year options on a three-year, $182.6 million contract to Enterprise Advisory Services Inc., of Houston for facility operations and support at NASA’s White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, N.M.

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NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Mikhail Kornienko safely launched to the International Space Station aboard a Soyuz spacecraft on Friday.

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Fifty years ago, the world’s first weather satellite lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., opening a new and exciting dimension in weather forecasting. Leaders from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, hailed the milestone as an example of a strong agency partnership and commitment to flying the best Earth observation satellites today and in the future.

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The most powerful camera aboard a NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars has returned the first pictures of locations on the Red Planet suggested by the public.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010…RO_HiWish.html

NASA has awarded contracts to eight aerospace firms for Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition III spacecraft and related services.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010…RAPID_III.html

NASA will exercise a one-year extension option on a contract with Computer Sciences Corporation in Lanham, Md., to provide supercomputing support services at NASA’s Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010…computing.html

NASA has awarded contracts to five companies to provide air-breathing engine technologies in support of aerospace propulsion research and technology development activities at the agency’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.

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NASA has awarded contracts to five companies to provide space propulsion systems technologies in support of research and technology development activities at the agency’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010…gy_Awards.html