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  • STS-129 crew patch

    STS-129 Crew Profiles

    Learn more about the STS-129 space shuttle mission and crew.

  • The crew of STS-129 in their orange launch and entry suits

    STS-129: Continuing the Countdown

    11.10.09 - Atlantis' next mission will help prepare the International Space Station for life without the shuttle.

  • Cari Goulard sitting at a computer console

    Eye in the Sky

    11.03.09 - College students who worked behind-the-scenes of NASA's EarthKAM project now work on the inside.

  • image of Paul's Robotics team receiving check

    College Team Wins Half-Million Dollar NASA Lunar Robot Prize

    10.18.09 - Paul’s Robotics, a team led by college student, Paul Ventimiglia of Worcester Polytechnic Institute won the $500,000 first prize in the 2009 Regolith Excavation Challenge that concluded on October 18. The second place prize of $150,000 was won by Terra Engineering of Gardena, California and the $100,000 third place prize went to Team Braundo of Rancho Palos Verdes, California.

  • Karina Ogilvie floats with a look of surprise on her face

    Rollercoaster Ride

    10.26.09 - Follow a team of college students through a week in NASA's Microgravity University.

  • Artist's concept of the Mars Science Lab rover on Mars

    Send Your Name to Mars  →

    06.30.09 - Submit your name to be included on a microchip that will be sent to Mars as part of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission, scheduled to launch in 2011.

  • A group of students pose in front of a NASA Education backdrop

    NASA Student Ambassadors

    09.01.09 - The first inductees into the NASA Student Ambassadors Virtual Community share with other Generation Y students how they got to where they are.

  • Maggie Masetti stands next to a model of a telescope

    Meet Maggie Masetti

    10.14.09 - For more than a decade, NASA education and outreach specialist Maggie Masetti has created ways to make teaching and learning science more fun.

  • Marci Delaney talks with students on a tv screen

    Delaney's Digital World

    10.08.09 - A scientist-turned-educator leads a NASA team that uses technology to bring science to the classroom.

  • Gene Feldman

    Oceans: The Great Unknown

    10.08.09 - Oceanographer Gene Feldman answers questions about a recent trip to the Galapagos Islands, tells how he first became interested in the oceans, and gives his advice to young scientists.

  • A screenshot from the game showing the exterior of the space station

    Station Spacewalk Game

    NASA's new Station Spacewalk Game gives players the experience of what it's like to work outside a spacecraft.

  • My Exploration - Upload Your Video!

    Whose video will be featured next?

    09.29.09 - Submit your video answering why you think space exploration is important and it could be featured online!

  • The six 2009 WISE scholars

    A Wise Choice

    09.29.09 - Graduates of Spelman College's Women In Science and Engineering program are the doctors, engineers and professors of today.

  • Nehemiah Mabry uses a band saw to cut a material

    NASA Understudy

    09.22.09 - NASA intern Nehemiah Mabry journeys through NASA's high school, undergraduate and, now, graduate student opportunities.

  • David Cruz

    Turning Back Time

    09.22.09 - Paleoclimatology research in a NASA student project provided David Cruz with a "time machine" to Earth's past.

  • Christian Mejia

    Knowledge Is Power

    09.08.09 - New York student Christian Mejia learned how to power houses, cars and careers during a NASA student project.

  • Brandon Lojewski sitting at a computer console

    From a Different View

    09.15.09 - A participant in student rocket competitions watched this summer’s launches from inside the Launch Vehicle Data Center.

  • Greg (l) and Reid (r) standing in front of the NASA Headquarters building.

    My Summer at NASA

    09.11.09 - NASA aeronautics scholarship recipients spent the summer working at NASA and tell us what it was like.

  • Two students working inside an airplane

    A New Spin

    09.08.09 - A team of Colorado students try to improve the design of a Skylab-era experiment on a reduced-gravity flight with NASA.

  • Three students holding part of a rocket

    Having a Blast

    09.08.09 - A veteran of NASA rocket competitions spends his summer at NASA using a high-powered impact gun to improve the safety of space exploration.