NASA Selects Sounding Rockets Operations Contractor
NASA selected Orbital Sciences Corp.'s, Technical Services Division in Greenbelt, Md., for the agency's Sounding Rockets Operations contract.

NASA Sets Briefing To Preview Space Station Spacewalk
NASA managers will discuss an upcoming spacewalk at the International Space Station during a news briefing at 1 p.m. CDT on Tuesday, Aug. 3.

NASA Opens Online Voting For Next Desert RATS Exploration Site
NASA is inviting the public to choose an area in northern Arizona where explorers will conduct part of the annual Desert Research and Technology Studies, known as Desert RATS.

NASA Simulates Space Exploration At Remote Arctic Crater Site
NASA personnel are among a group of international researchers who are in the Canadian Arctic assessing concepts for future planetary exploration as part of the Haughton-Mars Project, or HMP-2010.

NASA Astronaut Sends First Signed Message from Orbit
The number of languages used on the International Space Station has recently increased.

NASA Spacecraft Camera Yields Most Accurate Mars Map Ever
A camera aboard NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has helped develop the most accurate global Martian map ever. Researchers and the public can access the map via several websites and explore and survey the entire surface of the Red Planet.

NASA Seeks Undergrads to Defy Gravity for Science and Engineering
NASA is offering undergraduate students an opportunity to test an experiment in weightless science as part of the agency's Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program.

NASA Telescope Finds Elusive Buckyballs In Space For First Time
Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered carbon molecules, known as "buckyballs," in space for the first time. Buckyballs are soccer-ball-shaped molecules that were first observed in a laboratory 25 years ago.

NASA'S Hubble Shows Hyperfast Star Was Booted From Milky Way
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected a hypervelocity star – a rare phenomenon moving three times faster than our sun.

NASA Astronauts -- Including Space Station Crew Member From Maryland -- Available For Interviews In Washington
NASA Headquarters in Washington will welcome space shuttle Atlantis' STS-132 astronauts and International Space Station Expedition 22 and 23 Flight Engineer T.J. Creamer for a visit Monday, July 26, through Thursday, July 29.

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