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Washington (AFP) May 11, 2016 - Johnny Matheny's handshake is friendly, confident and firm - though not in the bone-crushing manner favored by some of the alpha types here in the Pentagon.
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Washington (AFP) May 11, 2016 - Johnny Matheny's handshake is friendly, confident and firm - though not in the bone-crushing manner favored by some of the alpha types here in the Pentagon.
May 11, 2016

Bristol, UK (SPX) May 11, 2016 - New research that discusses how people will interact with technology in the future will be presented this week at one of the world's most important conferences on human-computer interfaces, ACM CHI
May 11, 2016

Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) May 11, 2016 - NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida is one power step closer to processing the agency's Space Launch System (SLS), the most powerful rocket in the world, for its first flight, Exploration Mission 1
May 11, 2016

Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) May 11, 2016 - When Michael Thornton was growing up in the small south Florida city of Clewiston, he never dreamed of working in America's space program. Today, he not only is helping NASA prepare for the Journey
May 11, 2016

Tianjin, China (XNA) May 10, 2016 - China's new-generation Long March-7 rocket departed for its launch base in Hainan on Sunday from north China's port of Tianjin. It has taken researchers eight years to develop the medium-sized
May 10, 2016

Houston TX (SPX) May 10, 2016 - NASA and its International Space Station partners have announced the crew members for missions to the orbiting laboratory in 2017. The selection includes first-time space flyer NASA astronaut Scott
May 10, 2016

Washington DC (SPX) May 10, 2016 - While many Americans celebrate May 5 as Cinco de Mayo, the anniversary of a Mexican military victory, science nerds recognize the date as a technological milestone: the day the United States first p
May 10, 2016

Tucson AZ (SPX) May 09, 2016 - Paragon Space Development Corporation (Paragon) and partner Thin Red Line Aerospace (TRLA) received a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award from NASA to provide a unique solution t
May 9, 2016

Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 09, 2016 - NASA has released 56 formerly-patented agency technologies into the public domain, making its government-developed technologies freely available for unrestricted commercial use. In addition to the r
May 9, 2016

Atlanta, GA (SPX) May 08, 2016 - Generation Orbit Launch Services, Inc. (GO) is pleased to announce the signing of a Space Act Agreement with NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC) to collaboratively pursue the flight test an
May 8, 2016

Pasadena CA (JPL) May 06, 2016 - Michael M. Watkins, the Clare Cockrell Williams Centennial Chair in Aerospace Engineering and Director of the Center for Space Research at The University of Texas at Austin, has been appointed direc
May 6, 2016

Miami (AFP) May 6, 2016 - SpaceX successfully landed the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean early Friday after launching a Japanese communications satellite into orbit.
May 6, 2016

Miami (AFP) May 6, 2016 - SpaceX successfully landed the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean early Friday after launching a Japanese communications satellite into orbit.
May 6, 2016

Houston TX (SPX) May 06, 2016 - NASA's Human Research Program and the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) will fund 27 proposals to help answer questions about astronaut health and performance during future long d
May 6, 2016

Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 06, 2016 - NASA has selected Science and Technology Corporation of Hampton, Virginia, to provide support services at the agency's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California under the Aeronautics and Explo
May 6, 2016

Miami (AFP) May 5, 2016 - SpaceX plans to launch early Friday a Japanese communications satellite into a distant orbit before attempting to land the first stage of its Falcon rocket on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean.
May 5, 2016