NASA seeks students for low gravity tests
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Fancy a trip on the vomit comet? NASA is calling for US undergraduates to design and then take part in a series of lunar and zero gravity experiments. It wants submissions by 30 October.â¦
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PASADENA, Calif.  - NASA has recruited two Hollywood helicopter stunt pilots for an especially tricky maneuver -- snagging a capsule full of stardust as it parachutes back to Earth next month, mission managers said on Thursday.
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The U.S. astronauts selected for the next servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope are beginning their training this week.  The National Aeronautics and Space Administration astronauts are at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., for their first formal crew orientation.
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It has the technology to land men on the moon and send probes into the darkest reaches of space. But Nasa&#39;s newest project has more in common with school science lessons than Star Wars.
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BOULDER , Colo. -- NASA announced Wednesday the suite of US science investigators for its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) project, as well as a Russian scientist.
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The study relies almost entirely on interviews and self-administered tests, but psychologists for NASA said the findings could benefit their astronaut training program.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. &#x2014; Europe's bus-sized science lab will soon make its zero-gravity debut after the launch of NASA's space shuttle Atlantis tomorrow, weather permitting.
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Astronauts driven up the wall NASA boffins have developed a curious new method of simulating the effects of exercise on astronauts in weightless conditions. They plan to conduct Earth-based trials on human test subjects suspended horizontally in mid-air while running on a vertical treadmill.â¦
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Nearly two years after their experiments were destroyed in the Columbia shuttle explosion, high school students are getting a second chance to see how space affects everyday things such as hair, flowering seeds and plant food.
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Keeping an astronaut crew in tip-top shape during lengthy treks to and from distant Mars may demand portable gravity.
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An experienced team of pilots, engineers and scientists are relying on a reinforced skydiving parachute and a helicopter's hook to safely return the first samples from space since the Apollo era.
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Â· Moscow 'space flight' to simulate mission to Mars Â· Britons seek places in cramped static cabin
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Atlantis' seven-man crew is short on space experience, but that's on purpose. NASA wants to give as many rookie astronauts a shot at space before the shuttles are retired in less than three years.
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Two University of New Hampshire space scientists have been awarded &#36;5 million to help NASA build instruments for missions beyond the solar system.
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Astronaut hopefuls with the right stuff have a fresh chance to reach for the International Space Station and, ultimately, the moon, thanks to a new NASA hunt for qualified spaceflyers.
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American NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao, bottom, Russian cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov, center, and Russian Yuri Shargin, top, wave just before their launch at the cosmodrome Baikonur in Kazakstan, Thursday, Oct. 14, 2004.
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NASA is working to solve a potentially dangerous vibration problem in its next generation of launching vehicles.