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Where science and art meet

Published January 13, 2009 General Leave a Comment
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The next time you’re at the Virginia Air & Space Center, check out the student art on the second floor. The collection is the work of local kids who took part in Langley’s “NASA 2009/All Around Us: From A to Z” art contest. The art is also compiled in a calendar.

Read the news release here. This year’s winners were to be recognized at a ceremony at the VASC tonight Jan. 14, with Center Diretor Lesa Roe speaking and the local news media invited.

We started the contest last year to celebrate NASA’s 50th anniversary. It was so successful that we’re trying to make it a yearly event. We found not only does the calendar contest excite the students to learn more about how NASA uses inspiration, innovation and discovery to build a better world. It also excites a lot of adults to see NASA’s missions through the eyes of the youngsters. We had about 300 entries from around Hampton Roads. That’s more than triple the number we had last year.” – Contest organizer Katrina Young

‘Apollo Fortieth’ on Facebook

Published January 7, 2009 General Leave a Comment
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Check out the new Facebook page celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Apollo landing on the moon: http://www.facebook.com/home.php

If you’re not a member of Facebook, join!

Columbia’s last moments

Published December 30, 2008 Uncategorized Leave a Comment
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Columbia crew members were killed when the shuttle broke apart upon re-entering Earth's atmosphere.All the news media outlets are carrying this story about the last moments aboard the shuttle Columbia.

“The graphic, 400-page report includes many recommendations to make things safer for future space travelers.” – CNN

Loves me, loves me not ..

Published December 29, 2008 General Leave a Comment
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Two Mike Griffin petitions are making the rounds: one to keep him, the other to not. Presumably these will be forwarded to President-elect Barack Obama. Meanwhile, take the openLangley poll!

Langley at critical juncture

Published December 29, 2008 General Leave a Comment
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Former Langley employee Doug Dwoyer makes a call for action to position Langley in the future with a new administration coming in. Dwoyer’s call comes in an opinion piece that ran in Daily Press yesterday. View it here.

Our job as a community team is to make sure that the new administration recognizes these challenges, and recognizes that NASA and in particular NASA Langley can be major contributors to meeting the challenges. We only have a brief window to set the stage. Six months to a year from now, NASA’s direction within the Obama administration will be defined.

Dwoyer is a former associate director for center operations at Langley and currently is project director for the Hampton Roads Research Partnership and a member of the NASA Aeronautics Support Team.

Speedo suit makes Wired breakthrough list

Published December 26, 2008 General Leave a Comment
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An athlete swims toward the camera.The Speedo swimsuit that Langley helped developed has made the list of Wired’s top 10 technology breakthroughs for 2008. Check it out here. What Wired said:

Michael Phelps. 2008 Olympics. Enough said. Phelps and others were able to log faster times because of Speedo’s LZR swimsuit. It blends new materials and a dose of NASA rocket science to boost the speeds of elite swimmers — legally.

Viscous drag on a swimmer can be as much as 25 percent of the total retarding force. But Speedo’s suit, with its ultrasonically bonded seams instead of stitches, low-drag panels and a mix of polyurethane layers, can cut resistance and help swimmers move through the water faster. It also has a rigid, girdle-style structure that helps position the swimmer’s body in an optimal position. Did it have anything to do with Michael Phelps’ amazing eight Olympic gold medals? Probably not, as nearly every swimmer at the Games was wearing a Speedo suit.

Outlook: We’re hoping at least some of the technologies in the LZR will trickle down to the consumer level so we can slice through the water at the Y.

For all of you on the good Earth

Published December 23, 2008 General Leave a Comment
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Apollo 8 crewOn Christmas Eve 1968, astronauts Frank Borman, James A. Lovell, Jr., and William A. Anders transmitted this holiday message as they orbited the moon in their Apollo 8 spacecraft.

The three astronauts became the first humans to visit another heavenly body, and their reading from the biblical book of Genesis has become known as the Christmas Eve Broadcast.

NASA Television will honor the 40th anniversary of the historic Christmas Eve broadcast with special programming Dec. 24 and 25 on the NASA TV Public Channel (101). Continue reading ‘For all of you on the good Earth’

NASA top stories of 2008

Published December 15, 2008 General 1 Comment
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Year in Review 2008Several Langley achievements made NASA’s list of “top stories” of 2008, including sharing in the Collier Trophy, helping Speedo with the LZR racer swimsuit that starred in the Summer Olympics, and the successful Mars Phoenix Lander mission.

Check out the full story here. You can also vote here for which on the list you think is the biggest NASA accomplishment of the past year.

Send a holiday postcard into space

Published December 12, 2008 General Leave a Comment
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nasa-postcards_1229100945012Don’t forget the crew of the International Space Station when making your list and checking it twice this holiday season.

You can send a little bit of Earth to humanity’s outpost in space by clicking here. Choose from among four postcards to send to the Expedition 18 crew.

What to do?

Published December 11, 2008 General 2 Comments
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Daily PressDoes NASA need to wake up? Or is the agency already awake?

A Daily Press editorial maintains that bad things have happened since NASA “turned itself inside out” in response to the President’s space exploration vision. Conditions need to change to allow Langley “to better tap into the opportunities offered by the space program,” the editorial asserts, and to “reinstate aeronautics and science as national priorities, with funding to match.”

What do you think? Read the editorial here.

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