National Federation of the Blind Congratulates NASA on Successful Mission
Two Louis Braille Coins Return with Atlantis EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, May 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- When the space shuttle Atlantis landed today, it also returned from space two Louis Braille Bicentennial Silver Dollars. This unique coin commemorates the birth of the inventor of the readi...Cardiac Patients Take NASA Super Plastic to Heart
WASHINGTON, May 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A NASA technology that was developed for an aerospace high-speed research program is now part of an implantable device for heart failure patients. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO ) NASA's Langley Research Center ...Rice students win NASA national design award
It would be terrible if the first humans to reach Mars stepped onto the surface to discover their legs could no longer hold them. A team of Rice University students is working to make sure that doesn't happen. Five senior bioengineering students have designed a device to help astronauts keep t...Medgate Selected by NASA to Deliver Health and Safety Software Solutions
TORONTO, July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- It is with great pride that Medgate announces that the U.S. Government National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has selected Medgate's Industrial Hygiene and Employee Health Software for use across its entire operation. NASA sourced, selected, and ...VA Research Project on NASA Space Shuttle
Peake: VA Research Will Benefit Veterans, Others WASHINGTON, March 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) research project, which may lead to development of a vaccine to prevent Salmonella poisoning, was aboard the NASA space shuttle that launched March 11. ...UNH, state health agency, private industry and NASA to tackle Lyme disease
DURHAM, N.H. -- Armed with satellite imagery, field samples, human Lyme disease case data, and mathematical models, an interdisciplinary research team from the University of New Hampshire, the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, and the private sector will conduct work on the ec...Robotic Surgeon to Team Up With Doctors, Astronauts on NASA Mission
This week Raven, the mobile surgical robot developed by the University of Washington, leaves for the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. The UW will participate// in NASA's mission to submerge a surgeon and robotic gear in a simulated spaceship. For 12 days the surgical robotic system will be put through...Astronauts Spacewalk On The International Space Station – NASA Report
The first spacewalk was successfully by two crewmen in the early April. Followed by them two astronauts finished up their maintenance jobs on the international space station within 6.5 hours on Thursday. // In 2001, a spacewalk was scheduled by 8 hours and 56 minutes. Except for a video camera...Global Warming Disaster Closer Than Thought, Says NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has joined other agencies in warning of the global warming disasters. In fact it goes further than others and warns that even "moderate additional" greenhouse emissions are likely to push Earth past "critical tipping points" with "dangero...Gloomy Days Dim Cognitive Powers of the Depressed
...e behaviors tend to escalate in lighter months. The effect of sunlight on cognition, however, has not been well researched. The researchers used nasa weather data to see if there was any correlation between days of sunlight and levels of cognitive impairment in people with and without depression. ...Anti-Aging Expo & Symposium Showcases in Charlotte on March 28th
... Attendees will get to try and buy natural products and services. A better understanding of technologies such as energy medicine, applied kinesiology; nasa supplementation used for astronauts, weight loss solutions, experience yoga and Pilates, the latest science in skin care, stress reduction, lifestyle ...OxyBand Technologies, Inc. Hires a Leader in Medical Technology as Chief Technology Officer
...Sciences and Solid State Chemistry from France and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota. As part of his research funded by nasa on the use of spacecraft propulsion arcjet thrusters, he received an innovation award by the aerospace agency. About OxyBand Technologies, Inc. Ox...Former NASA astronaut Bonnie J. Dunbar to speak at NJIT's biomedical engineering seminar
One of the first women astronauts, Bonnie J. Dunbar, now a flight museum president, will speak at NJIT on April 23, 2009. The public is invited to attend this exciting free event during which Dunbar will detail how she made it into the world of flight. The event will be held at 11:30 a.m., ...Penn State receives new NASA astrobiology grant
Developing strategies for finding life on other planets and in extreme environments on Earth will be the focus of Penn State's new astrobiology initiative under a five-year grant from NASA's Astrobiology Institute for "Signatures of Life from Earth and Beyond." Christopher H. House, associate p...Observations from space: NASA environmental data and lung disease
NASA gathers a tremendous amount of data on the environment that can be helpful in understanding lung disease. In a session at the ATS 2008 International Conference called Observations From Space: A Unique Vantage Point for the Study of the Environment and Possible Associations with Disease Occur...ASU researchers use NASA satellites to improve pollution modeling
TEMPE, Ariz. -- Detecting pollution, like catching criminals, requires evidence and witnesses; but on the scale of countries, continents and oceans, having enough detectors is easier said than done. A team of air quality modelers, climatologists and air policy specialists at Arizona State Univ...Global 'sunscreen' has likely thinned, report NASA scientists
A new NASA study has found that an important counter-balance to the warming of our planet by greenhouse gases ?sunlight blocked by dust, pollution and other aerosol particles ?appears to have lost ground. The thinning of Earth’s "sunscreen" of aerosols since the early 1990s could have given an ex...Mars mission could ease Earth's energy supply crisis
... Techniques and instrumentation initially developed for ExoMars - Europe's next robotic mission to Mars in 2016 - but now due to fly on a nasa mission in 2018, could also provide the answers to the globally pressing issue of energy supply. A major study by the Imperial College London, fu...New one-of-a-kind technology will fly on 2 NASA missions
GREENBELT, Md. - Engineers at the University of Idaho have developed unique new technology that will be used in upcoming NASA missions that will study the Earth and Sun-Earth connection. Under the general guidance of a grant technical officer Pen-Shu Yeh, a senior engineer at NASA's Goddard Sp...New one-of-a-kind technology will fly on two NASA missions
GREENBELT, Md. - Engineers at the University of Idaho have developed unique new technology that will be used in upcoming NASA missions that will study the Earth and Sun-Earth connection. Under the general guidance of a grant technical officer Pen-Shu Yeh, a senior engineer at NASA's Goddard Sp...NASA Extends Bioastronautics Contract With Wyle for Total Value of $976 Million
... EL SEGUNDO, Calif., July 27 /PRNewswire/ -- nasa has exercised a $201 million second option on a contract with Wyle to provide continuing support to the Space Life Sciences Directorate at NASA's John...Environmental Tectonics Corporation Announces Sale of Additional Monoplace Hyperbaric Chambers
...zed expert in hyperbaric medicine, chronic wound treatment, and clinical business management operating in the New York Tri-State area. They are also a nasa and U.S. Military Hyper/Hypobaric contractor known for their work in underwater zero-G neutral buoyancy astronaut training and high altitude simulatio...University of Texas 'Picosatellite' to be launched from space shuttle to begin milestone mission
...on of the two picosatellites, which launch as one unit. Then, they will collect several orbits of position data from both hemispheres by testing a new nasa Global Positioning System receiver (DRAGON) aboard the satellites, and then downlink the data to a ground station at the university. "This is a s...Now Available: State-of-the-Art Gait Training Device to Help Millions Walk More Normally Again
..., Israel Institute of Technology. The idea for the GaitAid Virtual Walker was sparked 12 years ago while Professor Baram was designing a mechanism for nasa to navigate low-flying helicopters around obstacles. The concept of the design, which Professor Baram later applied to development of the GaitAid trai...EClips Energy Technologies, Inc. To Develop New 'Sterile Air' Product Using PATI Technology
... have been removed. For several years, the Company has been researching and testing this 'Pure Air' technology which had originally been developed for nasa by the University of Florida . The Company acquired the patents for commercial application of this technology in 2007. In recent University test...