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The hand-built Kennedy Space Center fixed-wing aircraft, Genesis, flying over the test range the day before the competition. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center / Adam Kimberlin
Rocket U UAS Competition Series: Going Forward

The Rocket U Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Competition may have come to a close, but not to an end. 

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Les Boatright (left) and Mike Knutson (right) prepare Kennedy Space Center’s Genesis aircraft for launch.
Rocket U UAS Competition Series: Team Kennedy

With an aircraft already in production and the groundwork underway for test flights, the Kennedy Space Center Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) team found themselves in a race against time to reach competition day.

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International Space Apps Challenge will take place on April 12 – 13, 2014.
International Space Apps Challenge: Interview with Beth Beck

NASA’s global mass collaboration event is back—and it’s aiming to leverage space data in new and interesting ways.

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The WIRE telescope inside the cryostat assembly.
This Month in NASA History: Learning from WIRE

Fifteen years ago this month, the Wide-field Infrared Explorer’s (WIRE) primary mission came to an abrupt end.

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CNN reporter Christine Romans and panelists during a forum on the importance of engineering talent hosted by the National Academy of Engineering in October 2013.
Attracting and Cultivating Engineering Talent: Summary of a Forum

The key to global engineering leadership and innovation is talent—and there is no guarantee that the United States will remain the default leader, according to panelists from a National Academy of Engineering forum.

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A tiny representation of the sun sneaks through between a truss-based radiator panel and a primary solar array panel on the Earth-orbiting International Space Station in this photograph taken by one of the Expedition 38 crew members on Jan. 2, 2014. Clouds over Earth and the blackness of space share the background scene.
The Metronome Hack

By Haley Stephenson A smartphone app set the tempo for a fix to bring the International Space Station (ISS) back online after a thermal system failed.

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Water fills the empty spacesuit helmet of Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano in an Aug. 27, 2013 test of the faulty spacewalking gear which forced NASA to abort a July 16 spacewalk for safety reasons. The water leak confirmation will help NASA engineers devise repair methods for the spacesuit.
Mishap Investigation Board Briefing on Spacesuit Water Intrusion

The investigation into a close call with a spacesuit anomaly from last July provides lessons about spaceflight safety, design, and operations.

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NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO)-2 spacecraft is moved into a thermal vacuum chamber at Orbital Sciences Corporation's Satellite Manufacturing Facility in Gilbert, Ariz., for a series of environmental tests. The tests confirmed the integrity of the observatory's electrical connections and subjected the OCO-2 instrument and spacecraft to the extreme hot, cold and airless environment they will encounter once in orbit. The observatory's solar array panels were removed prior to the test.
This Month in NASA History: From OCO to OCO–2

February marks the fifth anniversary of the first Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) launch.

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