Special Interest Tours Offered For A Limited Time At KSC
For more than 30 years, tour buses have driven guests past the
525-foot tall Vehicle Assembly Building, or VAB, at Kennedy Space
Center, pointing out the massive building in which Apollo V
rockets, and later, space shuttles, were assembled for launch. But
only a select few, including astronauts, NASA officials and space
center personnel, have ever had the opportunity to go inside the
building – until now.
Technology Developed For Use In Space Has Terrestrial
Applications
On a bluff overlooking the Atlantic, Grady Koch spent a month
watching ocean winds. He beamed a laser over the sea, day after
day, measuring conditions offshore using an instrument called
Doppler Aerosol Wind (DAWN) lidar, which is a type of laser. What
Koch learns from the experiment will be used by scientists to
advance weather forecasting technology – and also by a
consortium hoping to develop a wind farm in the very spot where the
wind data is being taken.
Those Selected Will Conduct Research Beginning In Fall
2012
NASA is seeking applications from graduate students for the
agency's second class of Space Technology Research Fellowships.
Applications will be accepted from accredited U.S. universities on
behalf of graduate students interested in performing space
technology research beginning in fall 2012.
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