May 10, 2010 | NASA News
NASA-sponsored studies have found that omega-3 fatty acids found in fish oil may play a role in mitigating bone breakdown that occurs during spaceflight and in osteoporosis.
May 10, 2010 | NASA News
NASA has awarded a sole source contract to Ball Aerospace and Technology Corp. of Boulder, Colo., for the Global Precipitation Measurement Microwave Imager instrument Flight Unit 2.
May 7, 2010 | NASA News
NASA has set the schedule for news conferences, events and operating hours at the Kennedy Space Center press site for space shuttle Atlantis’ upcoming launch.
May 6, 2010 | NASA News
NASA will send two astronauts, a veteran undersea engineer and an experienced scientist into the ocean depths off Florida’s east coast this month to test exploration concepts and learn more about working in an unforgiving, treacherous environment.
May 6, 2010 | NASA News
NASA’s Pad Abort 1 flight test, a launch of the abort system designed for the Orion crew vehicle, lifted off at 7 a.m. MDT Thursday at the U.S. Army’s White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) near Las Cruces, N.M.
May 6, 2010 | NASA News
NASA will host an Exploration Enterprise Workshop in Galveston, Texas, on May 25-26 to discuss the agency’s new plans for human and robotic exploration in space.
May 5, 2010 | NASA News
Space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to begin a 12-day flight to the International Space Station with a launch at 2:20 pm EDT on Friday, May 14.
May 5, 2010 | NASA News
NASA has selected 25 graduate and undergraduate students to receive the agency’s Aeronautics Scholarship for the 2010-11 school year.
May 4, 2010 | NASA News
At the next space shuttle launch, NASA will host 150 people from around the world and provide them with a behind-the-scenes perspective to share with their followers via the social networking service Twitter.
May 4, 2010 | NASA News
NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are asking for proposals to enhance small satellite experiments on the International Space Station.