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Video: NASA Designed a Hedgehog Robot to Explore Comets and Asteroids
This adorable robot uses its wheels in a different way.
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NASA Is Working on Making a Tractor Beam out of Hoverboards
We're one step closer to making Star Wars a reality.
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Teams in NASA’s Latest Challenge Compete to Have Their Inventions Sent into Space
NASA has completed the first round of its first space-based competition.
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NASA Creates New 'Self-Healing' Material
Hurtling through the endless void of space in a thin aluminum can as debris zips around in every direction may have just gotten a little safer.
Digital Government
‘The Meatball’ vs. ‘The Worm’: How NASA Brands Space
The space agency’s current symbol, a beloved signal of the agency’s storied past, wasn’t always so beloved.
Cybersecurity
NASA AI to power first-responder tech
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is working on lightweight artificial intelligence software to give situational awareness and decision support to first responders.
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Buzz Aldrin Wants to Colonize Mars Within 25 Years
Man first stepped foot on the moon in 1969. Maybe 70 years later, in 2039, humans will colonize Mars.
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Video: The Closest You Can Get to Space Without Leaving Earth
Where the extreme cold of space can be found in Houston, Texas.
Digital Government
Why NASA’s 20-Year-Old Astronaut Hiring Process Still Works Today
Putting several extremely talented, smart and confident people into space together requires the ultimate in teamwork, physical and mental toughness, and psychological agility.
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NOAA and NASA Plan to Send a Drone Right Into Tropical Storm Erika
NOAA wants to use unmanned aircraft to observe the skies and advance the country's weather forecasting abilities, said NOAA lead systems engineer John Coffey.
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Supper Club on Mars
Before people can colonize the Red Planet, they have to figure out what they'll eat once they get there.
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Infographic: Inside a NASA Rocket Engine
The RS-25 rocket engine will one day hopefully help get us to Mars.
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NASA Wants to Turn Human Waste into Plastic and Vitamins
When tomorrow’s astronauts feel the call of nature, they may be engaging in an act of creation.
People
Time to get your introverts talking (or at least typing)
The introverts who often dominate STEM professions tend to lie low in traditional meetings, which is why STEM-heavy NASA is dedicated to breaking out of the mold.
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The Actual NASA Technologies Matt Damon Will Use in the Space Survival Film 'The Martian'
"The Martian" is written in the form of a log by a fictional NASA astronaut, Mark Watney, who’s stranded on Mars after his team evacuates the planet during a brutal dust storm, believing him to be dead.
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