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How NASA Can Help Detectives ... Here is a short background provided by NASA. Engineers at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Kennedy Space Center, Fla., developed the Laser Scaling and Measurement Device for Photographic Images (LSMDPI) to assist scientists who were unable to determine the exact scale of hailstorm damages to the Space Shuttle's external tank by viewing photographs of the spacecraft on its launch pad....

Earth's Most Extensive Global Topographic Map ... Below are three images of the islands of Bora Bora, Tahaa and Raiatea, French Polynesia (top to bottom) taken from space (Credit: NASA/JPL/NGA). Here are two links to more details and to a larger version of these images...

NASA's Nanosensors Will Go To Mars ... The black box will be especially useful in the event of what NASA scientists call an "uncontrolled re-entry."...

NASA Finds Suits For '60s Space Spies ... Here is the story as told by NASA. Two security officers were doing a check of a facility known as the Launch Complex 5/6 museum...

NASA Is A Great Example To Follow ... Aluminium is non-magnetic and one of its key features is its remarkable light weight, making it the ideal material to be crafted and used in every day life. Its duration in commercial production has so far been short, spanning little over 100 years after being discovered in 1821...

'Take The A-Train', From NASA ... The above document describes the individual mission of all these satellites, before looking at the value of the entire formation. By combining the components, scientists are able to gain a better understanding of important parameters related to climate change...

Why Nasa Have To Focus On The Moon, Not Mars ... This really harks back to the Planetary Society's initial stages. In its early time, the only shape of manned space discovery it favoured was a Mars expedition...

If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create something the size of nasa to make one.
—H. Ross Perot (b. 1930)