FASTSAT
 
In record time, NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center has done the impossible. They’ve developed FASTSAT, an inexpensive high-tech satellite that could accelerate the speed of space exploration!

SAM
 
Space technology has walked on the moon, performed life saving surgery and protected the environment. Now, it is helping our soldiers with traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries.

Nintendo  
 
A partnership between Nintendo, the National Institute of Aerospace, and Nortel LearniT has brought interactive Pokemon lessons into the classroom.

Space Race
 
The space race began with the launch of Sputnik 50 years ago. Now, other nations like China and India are competing with the US (and NASA) as they become contenders in the race back to the Moon..

SARSAT    
 
SARSAT, an international, humanitarian satellite-based search and rescue system detects and locates emergency transmissions from ships, aircraft, and individuals in peril.

Beating Bugatti
 
NASA Langley’s wind tunnels helped the makers of the Ultimate Aero Twin Turbo faster than a speeding Bugatti, at over 255 miles per hour.

Brain Interface Game
 
A technology developed by NASA for flight training may help gamers play video games hands-free!

Spore Detection
 
A sterilization tool originally used to prevent Earth germs from growing in space is being used to detect anthrax and other harmful spore forming bacteria on Earth.

Space Technology
 
The Beagle 2 spacecraft may have been a bust when sniffing out signs of life on Mars, but its ultra sensory technology will be used to sniff out Tuberculosis here on Earth.

Van Allen Belts
 
NASA is using a simple technique based on high altitude balloons to help scientists better understand the Van Allen Belts.

James Webb Telescope
 
The James Webb Telescope will soon become the new darling of space exploration while sporting a mirror six times larger than the mirror on the Hubble Telescope.

Desert Rats
 
NASA’s “desert rats” are a team of scientists and engineers who spend their time testing futuristic equipment that may one day be used for exploring the Moon and Mars.

Electric Force Fields
 
The University of Massachusetts has discovered a real-life force field that could protect future spacecraft.

The Search for Life
 
More than 30 years after NASA’s Viking landers first searched for life on Mars, NASA again asks the question - are we alone in the Universe?

Better Space Images
 
Goddard Space Flight Center and Northrop Grumman just signed an agreement to develop new instrumentation that will improve the way we observe planetary surfaces from space.

Milky Way is Bigger
 
Data from the Internet has helped a group of Australian scientists recalculate the size of the Milky Way.

Antarctic Space Rocks
 
A pair of unusual space rocks found recently in Antarctica has scientists wondering about their origin.

Exploding Star
 
Long ago and far away … a distant star exploded … taking 7.5 billion years for its light to reach Earth!

HACCP 
 
The Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point, or HACCP concept developed forty years ago by NASA and the Pillsbury Company has led to food safety systems and new nutritional products in space and on Earth!

EADS Space Tourism Rocket Planes
 
European aerospace company EADS is looking to meet the demands of the future space tourism market by producing planes specifically made to carry paying passengers into space.

Nutrigras Spin-Off 
 
NASA’s quest for more nutritious space food led to a revolutionary new fat substitute that cuts calories and enhances flavor!

NASA Cuts Utility Costs
 
A new NASA partnership is using space-age technology to say goodbye to the high-cost of consumer gas and electric bills. 

From Space to Earth - WinDNA
 
The technology that allows doctors to monitor critically ill patients all started with the Apollo missions.

Galaxy’s are Bigger Than Thought
 
NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer has revealed that roughly 20 percent of nearby galaxies have spiral arms that extend far beyond the galaxies’ apparent edges.

First Vietnamese Satellite Launched
 
The launch of Vietnam’s first satellite may help bridge the communication and economic gaps that divide the country’s urban and rural communities.

DALI
 
Astronomers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory hope to start listening to the universe by placing one hundred thousand antennas on the moon.

India’s Satellite Business
 
In April 2008 India successfully blasted off 10 satellites into orbit, and set a new record for the most satellites ever fired off on a mission.

Beatles Travel to Deep Space
 
On February 4, 2008, NASA’s Deep Space Network beamed The Beatles’ hit “Across the Universe” directly into deep space.

NASA Goes Virtual
 
“Second Life,” NASA’s version of reality TV is open to anyone, and the first Federal Government presence in the 3D virtual world.

Names in Space
 
Imagine having your name attached to the discovery of an Earth-like planet beyond our solar system?

Bigelow Orbital Milestone
 
A privately funded space station has passed an orbital milestone, which could reshape the future of space travel.

Electromagnetic Formation Flight
 
Magnets are the latest space mission tools - and they're 'attracting' quite a bit of attention!

NASA Goes Commercial
 
NASA officials hope to contract private space companies to develop economical cargo vehicles as they kick-start commercial space transportation.

Space Rocks Bring Life?
 
Scientists believe that rocks ejected from Earth by an asteroid impact, could protect organisms living inside them as they speed through space.

GRAIL
 
MIT physics professor Maria Zuber is part of a NASA mission called GRAIL - the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory.

Space Brew
 
The Japanese brewery Sapporo is teaming up with Okayama University biologist, Manabu Sugimoto to produce the very first space beer.

ESA & Marco Polo
 
As scientists search for clues to Earth’s origins, it’s the solar system’s most irregular bodies that may hold the secrets.

Space Elevator
 
Once a sci-fi fantasy, the space elevator has risen from storybooks to capture the imagination of engineers world-wide.

Apollo Heat Sheild
 
The saying is true – what’s old IS new again, as a new generation of space vehicles goes retro, with a blast from the past!