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June 10, 2013

NASA's Orion Spacecraft Proves Sound Under Pressure

Static Load Tests Completed This Week

After a month of being poked, prodded and pressurized in ways that mimicked the stresses of spaceflight, NASA's Orion crew module successfully passed its static loads tests on Wednesday.

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NASA Flights Target How Pollution, Storms And Climate Mix

Agency Calling The Effort Its 'Most Complex Airborne Science Campaign Of The Year'

NASA aircraft will be conducting flights over the southern United States this summer to investigate how air pollution and natural emissions, which are pushed high into the atmosphere by large storms, affect atmospheric composition and climate. NASA will pursue its most complex airborne science campaign of the year from Houston's Ellington Field.

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NASA Partners With The LEGO Group For Design And Build Contest

Competition Intended To Inspire The Next Generation Of Aerospace Engineers

NASA and the LEGO Group are partnering to inspire the next generation of aerospace engineers by offering a new design competition. The competition will spur students of all ages to use the toy bricks in building models of future airplanes and spacecraft.

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NASA Selects 31 Space Biology Research Proposals

Institutions From 13 States Will Share $14.9 Million

NASA's Space Biology Program will fund 31 proposals to help investigate how cells, plants and animals respond to changes in gravity. These studies will result in new basic knowledge that provides a foundation on which other NASA researchers and engineers can build approaches and countermeasures to problems confronting human exploration of space, or that translate into new biological tools or applications on Earth.

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NASA Technology Improves Safety On Offshore Platforms

Fiber-Optic Monitors Developed Through A Space Act Agreement

A new fiber-optic monitoring system developed through a Space Act Agreement between NASA and Astro Technology Inc. of Houston is helping to increase safety for workers and reduce the risk of leaks and spills on two oil platforms off the coast of West Africa. The technology also has potential future space exploration applications.

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NASA Prepares For Launch Of Next Solar Satellite

IRIS Will Observe How Solar Material Reacts In Sun's Atmosphere

NASA's next scientific satellite, which is scheduled for launch June 26, will provide the most detailed look ever at the sun's lower atmosphere or interface region. The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission will observe how solar material moves, gathers energy, and heats up as it travels through this largely unexplored region of the solar atmosphere.

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