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  • Kepler

    Science Magazines Honor Cutting-Edge NASA Programs

    11.20.09 - NASA's revolutionary planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has been honored with the 2009 Best of What's New Grand Award from Popular Science Magazine and a 2009 Breakthrough Award from Popular Mechanics Magazine.

  • NASA Pleiades supercomputer

    NASA Supercomputer Ranks Among World's Fastest

    11.18.09 - NASA’s premiere supercomputer located at Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., has garnered the sixth spot on the Top500 list of the world's most powerful computers.

  • Algae bloom in the Baltic Sea.

    NASA Develops Algae Bioreactor as a Sustainable Energy Source

    11.18.09 - As a clean energy alternative, NASA invented an algae photo-bioreactor that grows algae in municipal wastewater to produce biofuel and a variety of other products.

  • The Visible camera image showing the ejecta plume at about 20 seconds after impact.

    NASA's LCROSS Confirms Water in Lunar Crater

    11.13.09 - Preliminary data from NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, indicates the mission successfully uncovered water in a permanently shadowed lunar crater. The discovery opens a new chapter in our understanding of the moon.

  • The canister containing the payload for space shuttle Atlantis' STS-129 mission to the International Space Station is secured in the Payload Changeout Room at Launch Pad 39A.

    Ames to Host Live Broadcast of Space Shuttle Launch

    11.12.09 - News media and the public are invited to observe the live televised broadcast of the launch of STS-129, space shuttle Atlantis, on Monday, Nov. 16 in the Exploration Center at NASA Ames.

  • DART Exercise 2002

    NASA Ames Co-Hosts 'Random Hacks of Kindness'

    11.10.09 - News media and the public are invited to witness the first step in building a global community dedicated to solving disaster relief challenges through technology at the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, Calif.

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