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September 17, 2012

NASA Accepting Applications For Aeronautics Scholarships

Expects To Hand Out 20 Undergrad And Five Graduate Awards

NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate is accepting scholarship applications from graduate and undergraduate students for the 2013-2014 academic year. The application deadline is Jan. 14, 2013. NASA expects to award 20 undergraduate and five graduate scholarships to students in an aeronautical engineering program or related field.

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NASA Offers Opportunity To Use Communications Testbed On Space Station

Academia, Industry, Government Agencies Will Have Access To The SCAN Technology

NASA is announcing opportunities for academia, industry and government agencies to develop and carry out research and technology demonstrations on the International Space Station using the newly installed Space Communications and Navigation (SCAN) testbed.

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AIAA’s 'Aerospace Research Central' Now Available To Users

ARC Offers Robust Research Capabilities And Streamlined Functionality

The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is making its Aerospace Research Central (ARC) electronic database available to users.  The site was produced in partnership with Atypon, an established provider of software to the scientific and scholarly publishing industry.

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Last Voyage For Endeavour Postponed Due To Weather

CA Arrival Plans Currently Unchanged

It looks like Endeavour is not going to her retirement without a fight... NASA's planned ferry flight of space shuttle Endeavour atop the 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) has been postponed until Tuesday, Sept. 18 due to an unfavorable weather forecast for Monday, Sept. 17. To ensure a safe flight for Endeavour and the SCA, NASA managers, in consultation with the California Science Center decided Sunday to delay the flight because of inclement weather predicted along the flight path between Houston and NASA's Kennedy Space Center, where the flight will originate.

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Three Astronauts Home From ISS

ISS Astronauts Land Safely In Kazakhstan

Three members of the Expedition 32 crew undocked from the International Space Station and returned safely to Earth on Sunday, wrapping up a mission lasting more than four months. Flight Engineer Joe Acaba of NASA, and Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Sergei Revin of the Russian Federal Space Agency, undocked their Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft from the space station at 7:09 p.m. EDT and landed north of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, at 10:53 p.m. (8:53 a.m., Sept. 17, Kazakhstan time). The trio arrived at the station May 17 and spent 125 days in space, 123 of which were aboard the orbiting laboratory.

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Next Mars Mission Enters Final Phase Before Launch

MAVEN To Be The First Mission To Study The Martian Atmosphere

NASA's Mars Atmosphere And Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission has passed a critical milestone, Key Decision Point-D or KDP-D. The project is officially authorized to transition into the next phase of the mission, which is system delivery, integration and test, and launch.

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First Tests Are Successful At Stratospheric Balloon Launch Site In Ontario

Canadian, French Space Agencies Prep For Trial Launch Next Year

This week, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and the French space agency (Centre national d'études spatiales or CNES) traveled last week to the future stratospheric balloon launch site in Timmins, Ontario and successfully completed a series of tests for the first trial launch scheduled for 2013.

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