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Press Releases
Why You Need a 3D Printer in Your Business
If you’ve heard about 3D printers before, it was probably in the context of being used by designers to build preliminary models, engineers to create prototypes, and hobbyists to create toys and other fun things. But why would your small business require one? Well, besides the above examples, there is a slew of other reasons. Here’s why you need a…
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NASA Sets Coverage, Invites Public to Virtually Join Starliner Launch
Editor’s Note: This advisory was updated on July 16 to correct the time and date by which media must contact the Kennedy newsroom to particpate in the July 27 Prelaunch News Conference. NASA will provide coverage of the upcoming prelaunch, launch, and docking activities for the agency’s Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission to the International Space Station. Scheduled to launch at…
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NASA TV to Air Launch of Space Station Module, Departure of Another
NASA will provide live coverage of a new Russian science module’s launch and automated docking to the International Space Station, and the undocking of another module that has been part of the orbital outpost for the past 20 years. Live coverage of all events will be available on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency’s website. The uncrewed Multipurpose Laboratory Module…
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NASA Launches Entrepreneurs Challenge to Identify Innovative Ideas
NASA is announcing its 2021 Entrepreneurs Challenge to invite fresh ideas and new participants that will lead to new instruments and technologies with the potential to advance the agency’s science mission goals. The agency’s Science Mission Directorate is seeking novel ideas that focus on priority areas for the commercial sector. The Entrepreneurs Challenge aligns with NASA’s goal to foster innovation…
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NASA Software Benefits Earth, Available for Business, Public Use
Many of NASA’s computational innovations were developed to help explore space, but the public can download them for applications that benefit us right here on Earth. The agency’s latest software catalog has hundreds of popular programs, as well as more than 180 new ones, all available for free download. “From operations here on Earth to missions to the Moon and Mars, software…
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NASA to Air Third Spacewalk to Install New Station Solar Arrays
Two astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station Friday, June 25, for a third spacewalk to continue power system upgrades that are already increasing output and proving the technology that will enable NASA’s future Gateway lunar outpost. Live coverage will begin at 6:30 a.m. EDT on NASA Television, the agency’s website, and the NASA app, with the crew members scheduled to exit the…
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Singapore Space Venture QOSMOSYS Launches Retail Brand QONN8Q
QOSMOSYS, a Singapore-based space venture founded in 2020 with the aim to contribute to a new business era of peaceful space colonization, is launching their first consumer brand, QONN8Q (pronounced “Connect”). QONN8Q by QOSMOSYS website Founder and CEO of Qosmosys QOSMOSYS combines breakthrough technologies with ambitious business goals to design space missions relying on a proprietary spacecraft design, aims at upscaling…
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NASA Selects Postdoctoral Program Research Support Contractor
NASA has selected Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, to provide the agency with administrative support and coordination of research opportunities between NASA’s mission directorates and centers across the agency. The NASA Postdoctoral Program 2 (NPP-2) contract is a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract with a maximum potential value of approximately $129.7 million. The one-year base performance period begins Sept.…
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NASA Awards Universities $1.2M for Space Station, Suborbital Research
NASA has awarded $1.2 million to nine universities and organizations across the country for research and technology development projects in areas critical to the agency’s mission, including studying radiation effects and growing food for long-duration space travel. NASA’s Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) supports science and technology research and development at colleges and universities. All projects are applicable…
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Science, Solar Arrays Launch on NASA’s SpaceX Cargo Mission
The latest SpaceX Dragon resupply spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station after launching at 1:29 p.m. EDT Thursday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, bearing more than 7,300 pounds of science experiments, new solar arrays, and other cargo. The spacecraft launched on a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy. It is scheduled to autonomously…
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