Product Description: Space flight is important for rnany reasons. Space flight carries scientific instruments and human researchers high above the ground, permitting us to see Earth as a planet and to study the complex interactions of atmosphere, oceans, land, energy, and living things...read more

Product Description: Volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, floods, and El Niño are naturally occurring events over which humans have no control. But can human activities cause additional environmental change? Can scientists predict the global impacts of increased levels of pollutants in the atmosphere? Will the planet warm because increased levels of greenhouse gases, produced by the burning of fossil fuels, trap heat and prevent it from being radiated back into space? Will the polar ice caps melt, causing massive coastal flooding? Have humans initiated wholesale climatic change? These are difficult questions, with grave implications...read more

Product Description: The Solar System Puzzle Kit allows students to create an eight-cube paper puzzle of the solar system with the enclosed kit. The kit may be duplicated for classroom use. It is also recommended as a take home activity for children and parents...read more

Title 14 presents regulations governing the activities of the Department of Transportation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the areas of aeronautics and space, including: aircraft, airmen, airspace, air traffic, certification of air carriers and operations, and airports. Additions and revisions to this section of the code are posted annually by January. Publication follows within six months.

Product Description: Loss of Signal, a NASA publication to be available in May 2014, presents the aeromedical lessons learned from the Columbia accident that will enhance crew safety and survival on human space flight missions. These lessons were presented to limited audiences at three separate Aerospace Medical Association (AsMA) conferences: in 2004 in Anchorage, Alaska, on the causes of the accident; in 2005 in Kansas City, Missouri, on the response, recovery, and identification aspects of the investigation; and in 2011, again in Anchorage, Alaska, on future implications for human space flight...read more

Product Description: This fiscal year (FY) Summary of Performance and Financial Information is an excerpt from the FY 2014 Agency Financial Report, which provides an overview of NASA’s major programmatic and financial results for FY 2014. It integrates financial and program performance to demonstrate stewardship and accountability and highlights FY 2014 achievements...read more

Product Description: For the first time in human history, the technological reach exists to discover and characterize planets like Earth orbiting stars other than the Sun. A space-based direct imaging mission to ultimately find and characterize other Earths is a long-term priority for space astrophysics (NRC 2010)...read more

Product Description: This report documents the data generated by the Space Station Program "Skunk Works" over a period of 4 months which supports the definition of a Space Station reference configuration. The data were generated to meet these objectives: a...read more

Product Description: NP 2012-11-912-HQ.   Provides an in-depth look at how NASA's  initiatives in aeronautics and space exploration have resulted in beneficial commercial technologies in the fields of health and  medicine, transportation, public safety, consumer goods, environmental protection, computer technology and industrial productivity...read more