Hank Green-YouTube star and science communicator-to talk at Space Center Houston

Creator and entrepreneur Hank Green, known for his YouTube videos on channels such as Crash Course and SciShow, will speak at ...

NASA discovered a bacteria that can ‘play dead’—and might have accidentally sent it to Mars

In 2013, NASA discovered a bacteria evading its most stringent disinfections. Scientists just figured out how it does it.

NASA’s trailblazing generation

Among the trailblazing women, those who had long aspired to spaceflight learned to fly airplanes in hopes of improving their ...
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Space shuttle Discovery fight continues as Texas senators rope Department of Justice into their tug-of-war with Smithsonian

The two Texas Senators trying to mandate the relocation of Discovery from the Smithsonian Institution's Udvar-Hazy Center in ...
Houston Chronicle

NASA names second crew for yearlong Mars simulation at Houston’s Johnson Space Center

NASA’s next crew of “astronauts” won’t leave Houston, but they will live like they’re 140 million miles away — sealed inside a simulated Mars habitat for 378 days. NASA said last week that four ...

So, do they ‘fall back’ and ‘spring forward’ on the space station, too?

It means that for astronauts on the ISS, there’s no talk of “spring forward” and “fall back” in March and November, ...

With 15,000 workers furloughed and funds uncertain, NASA focuses on one mission — return to the moon

The space agency has been grappling with budget uncertainties and a talent exodus even before the shutdown. But NASA’s moon ...
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Visit to NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, a slideshow: Orion

On July 7, Chuck Murray, Senior Technical Editor for Design News and myself, Steve Taranovich, Editor-in-chief, Planet Analog visited the behind-the-scenes operations of the Orion program at NASA ...
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Johnson Space Center director Vanessa Wyche returns after stint as acting NASA associate administrator

From the Houston Business Journal. Johnson Space Center is getting its director back. An agency spokesperson confirmed to the Houston Business Journal on Sept. 3 that Vanessa Wyche will return to her ...
Her Campus

The Future of Space is Female

The women in this group include Lauren Edgar, Rebecca Lawler, Anna Menon, Dr. Imelda Muller, Erin Overcash, and Katherine ...
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The Smithsonian might have to cut space shuttle Discovery into pieces to get it to Texas

The Smithsonian recently confirmed that NASA and the museum have been directed by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) ...