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1Wallops Flight Facility — (WFF) Airport codes|WAL|KWAL, located on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, is operated by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center primarily as a rocket launch site to support science and exploration… …
2Physical Sciences — ▪ 2009 Introduction Scientists discovered a new family of superconducting materials and obtained unique images of individual hydrogen atoms and of a multiple exoplanet system. Europe completed the Large Hadron Collider, and China and India took… …
3Marshall Space Flight Center — George C. Marshall Space Flight Center Aerial view of the test area at MSFC …
4Nobel Prizes — ▪ 2009 Introduction Prize for Peace The 2008 Nobel Prize for Peace was awarded to Martti Ahtisaari, former president (1994–2000) of Finland, for his work over more than 30 years in settling international disputes, many involving ethnic,… …
5Antarctica — /ant ahrk ti keuh, ahr ti /, n. the continent surrounding the South Pole: almost entirely covered by an ice sheet. ab. 5,000,000 sq. mi. (12,950,000 sq. km). Also called Antarctic Continent. * * * Antarctica Introduction Antarctica Background:… …
6James S. Albus — James S. Albus, ca. 2000. James Sacra Albus (May 4, 1935 April 17, 2011) was an American engineer, Senior NIST Fellow and founder and former chief of the Intelligent Systems Division of the Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory at the National… …
7LIDAR — A FASOR used at the Starfire Optical Range for LIDAR and laser guide star experiments is tuned to the sodium D2a line and used to excite sodium atoms in the upper atmosphere …
8Frank Cepollina — Infobox Scientist name = Frank J. Cepollina box width = caption = Frank Cepollina at National Inventors Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony birth date = 1936 birth place = Castro Valley, California residence = Annandale, VA citizenship = nationality …
9Space Shuttle — STS redirects here. For other uses, see STS (disambiguation). This article is about the NASA Space Transportation System vehicle. For the associated NASA STS program, see Space Shuttle program. For other shuttles and aerospace vehicles, see… …
10National Virtual Observatory — The US National Virtual Observatory (NVO) was conceived to allow scientists to access data from multiple astronomical observatories, including ground and space based facilities, through a single portal. Currently, the National Science Foundation… …
