Ames Features and News

Kepler Mission Manager Update, Feb. 8, 2010

artist concept of Kepler in space
02.08.10

Kepler experienced a safe mode event on February 2, 2010.

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Ames Hosts Tests to Improve Fuel Efficiency

National Full-Scale Aerodynamic Complex at NASA Ames Research Center.
02.08.10

Saving the nation $10 billion annually in diesel fuel costs may be possible in a few years thanks to new devices developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, also known as LLNL of Livermore, ...

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NASA to Study Seeds in Space to Understand Plant Growth

Tropi2 patch
02.05.10

NASA scientists hope to better understand exactly how and why plants grow differently in space in an experiment named, Tropi.

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    NASA Studies Nanomechanics of Inner Ear

    02.04.10 - Learning how to walk again after long-duration space flights is a problem astronauts face as they readjust to Earth’s gravity. To learn how microgravity affects human space travelers, NASA scientists studied the nanomechanics of hair cells in the inner ear.

  • Fiscal Year 2011 Budget graphic

    NASA Ames to Discuss 2011 Budget

    02.01.10 - NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced the administration's fiscal year 2011 budget request Monday by calling for change and a new era of innovation in America's approach to science and space exploration.

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    NASA Announces 2011 Budget News Conferences

    02.01.10 - NASA will hold news conferences on Monday, Feb. 1, and Tuesday, Feb. 2, to discuss the fiscal year 2011 budget request and announce bold new developments in the nation's civil space effort.

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    NASA Ames to Host Fiscal Year 2011 Budget Briefings

    01.29.10 - NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will brief reporters about the agency's fiscal year 2011 budget at noon PST on Monday, Feb. 1, 2010.

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    NASA Day of Remembrance

    01.29.10 - NASA Day of Remembrance, Jan. 29, 2010

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    NASA Adds Israeli Technical Expertise to Lunar Science Research at Ames

    01.27.10 - NASA and the Israel Space Agency have signed a joint statement that recognizes the Israel Network for Lunar Science and Exploration, or INLSE, as an affiliate partner with the NASA Lunar Science Institute at the agency’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif.

Spotlight on Ames

  • Tropi experiment

    Tropi Experiment

    Learn more about the seeds growing in space.

  • iPhone App

    iPhone App

    Download the first ever NASA application for the iPhone.

  • LCROSS

    LCROSS

    NASA's Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite.

  • Kepler spacecraft

    Kepler

    NASA's search for habitable planets.

  • Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)

    SOFIA

    The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) is a joint venture of the U.S. and German aerospace agencies, NASA and the DLR.

  • Green Algae

    Greenspace

    Leveraging NASA for a greener Earth.

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