NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and other senior agency
officials joined President Obama in honoring student science fair
winners from across the country at the second annual White House
Science Fair Tuesday in the East Wing of the White House. The event
highlighted student achievement and excellence in science,
technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM.
Blog Post Outlines Progress, NASA Adminstrator's Vision
In an entry posted on a NASA blog, Administrator Charles Bolden
says NASA and its industry partners make tremendous progress on the
commercial capability for delivering cargo and transporting crew to
low Earth orbit (LEO). He says it’s a path that will stop the
out-sourcing of our missions to the space station and bring that
work back home here to America by relying on U.S. companies to get
the job done.
HiRISE Camera Captures Image Of Spirit And Phoenix Rovers On
Martian Surface
The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera
on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter recorded a scene on January
29, 2012, that includes the first color image from orbit showing
the three-petal lander of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit
mission. Spirit drove off that lander platform in January 2004 and
spent most of its six-year working life in a range of hills about
two miles to the east.
Latest Edition Follows 44 Technologies From Space To
Terrestrial Pursuits
NASA's Spinoff 2011 publication, now available online, reveals
how the space agency's ingenuity and partnerships have saved
thousands of lives, and generated billions of dollars. The latest
edition of Spinoff records 44 journeys of NASA's most innovative
technologies. It chronicles their origins in NASA missions and
programs and their transfer to the public in the form of practical
commercial products and benefits to society.
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