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The Marshall News Release archive contains the latest news, media advisories, and status reports from Marshall, organized by date and year. Associated photos, audio files, and video files are listed with the release title. For additional news releases, see also:

2004, Jan, - June  
2003, July - Dec.  
 
 
 
 
   
 
1999 News Releases
Date Title Multimedia
12/29/99

Second NASA X-34 Rocket Plane Reaches Assembly Milestone

12/21/99

X-33 Linear Aerospike Engine Undergoes First Full-Power Test at Stennis Space Center

12/21/99

Chandra Maps Vital Elements from Supernova

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12/17/99

Voluntown, Conn. Native Joins X-37 Space Plane Project At NASA’s Marshall Center

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12/17/99

Air Force Officer Joins X-37 Space Plane Project At NASA’s Marshall Center

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12/16/99

Harvard Fellow Wins National Space Award for Space Shuttle Improvements at NASA’s Marshall Center

12/15/99

Marshall Center Technologies Highlighted In NASA's New "Spinoff" Publication

12/14/99

The End of Days — Chandra Catches X-ray Glow From Supernova

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12/13/99

Christmas Tree Lighting on Dec. 15 Continues Seasonal Tradition at Marshall

12/10/99

Successful Chandra, Space Station, X-Vehicle Milestones Highlight Rewarding 1999 for NASA’s Marshall Center

12/09/99

Chandra Plows Up a Snake in Hydra A

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11/30/99

Next Space Shuttle Mission on Track for Dec. 9 Launch; Media Press Kit Is Available Online

11/23/99

NASA Center’s Six-Day Employee Relocation Proves Planning Plus Teamwork Equal Success

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11/23/99

Marshall@the Millennium
Dawn of a New Era in Space Transportation

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11/19/99

Leonids Activities at Marshall Make for Meteorically Successful Night: 1,700 Meteors Per Hour at Peak; Balloon Camera Records Images

11/15/99

Team Leads for X-33 Hydrogen Tank Test Damage Investigation Named by NASA and Lockheed Martin

11/15/99

Marshall Remote Sensing Research To be Featured at National Conference

11/12/99

The Leonids Meteor Shower Is Coming! NASA Scientists Ready for Possible Huge, Spectacular Storm Nov. 17-18

11/12/99

NASA’s Marshall Center Hosts 'Open House 2000' on May 20

11/12/99

Education Week Poster, Essay Contest Winners To Be Named at Nov. 15 Luncheon

11/10/99

Missouri's First NASA Educator Resource Center Opens Nov. 16

11/9/99

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory Chosen Among ‘Best of What’s New’ By ‘Popular Science’ Magazine

11/9/99

NASA Engineers to Operate Center for Monitoring Leonids Shower; Scientists to Launch Balloon for Clear View of Leonids Meteors

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11/8/99

As Drought-Ravaged ’99 Harvest Proceeds, Farmers Turn to NASA’s Marshall Center for 21st Century Solutions

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11/5/99

A New Approach to Farming -- High in the Sky NASA Brings 21st Century Technology Down to Earth

11/4/99

X-33 Hydrogen Tank Damaged

11/4/99

NASA Fuels Land Mine Removal Efforts With Thiokol, Marshall Center Agreement

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11/1/99

Media Invited to Cover Children's School Safety Posters Judging Nov. 3 at Marshall Center Marking American Education Week

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10/29/99

Leftover NASA Rocket Fuel Used in New, Humanitarian Role to Destroy Landmines More Safely

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10/29/99

WW II Mortar Rounds Uncovered in Work on Arsenal

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10/26/99

Marshall Center Managers Receive Presidential Rank Awards

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10/25/99

Chandra Probes Explosive Activity in Centaurus A Galaxy

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10/25/99

NASA Conference Explores the Cutting Edge of Technology

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10/25/99

NASA-Invented Fastener for Use in Space May Have Big Impact in Earthly Uses

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10/15/99

Touch the Future at Space Transportation Day ’99: Media Tours Available

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10/15/99

NASA Space Transportation Day Live Satellite Broadcast Available to Media/Webcasters

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10/15/99

Debate Continues Over Celestial Mystery; NASA’s Marshall Center Sponsors 5th Gamma Ray Burst Symposium Oct. 18-22

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10/12/99

NASA Administrator Goldin to Visit Marshall Center

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10/12/99

Space Shuttle Crew That Launched Chandra X-ray Observatory To Visit Marshall Center Thursday

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10/12/99

New Space Optics Manufacturing Technology Center at Marshall Seeks to Expand View of Universe

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10/8/99

New Chandra X-ray Observatory Images Reveal Shocking Details Of Mysterious Superstar’s Activity

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10/7/99

Marshall Center Recognized by NASA For Partnering With Small Businesses

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10/7/99

New NASA Track Races Toward Cheaper Trips to Space

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10/6/99

Robert McBrayer Named Director of Systems Management Office At Marshall Center

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10/5/99

Marshall Helps NASA Achieve ISO 9001 Registration at All Sites

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10/4/99

Marshall Center to Demonstrate New Maglev Track Oct. 6

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10/4/99

Maglev Test Track Technology Could Reduce Space Travel Costs

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10/4/99

White House Science Education Deputy To Visit Huntsville Elementary School Oct. 6

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10/1/99

Oct. 4 Event Kicks Off Combined Federal Campaign Charitable Drive at NASA's Marshall Center

9/30/99

NASA Marshall Center Takes Advantage of Break In Florida Storms, Delivers Space Station Truss to Cape

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9/30/99

First Brain Cancer Surgeries Using New Space-Age Probe Are Successful

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9/28/99

Chandra Discovers X-ray Ring Around Cosmic Powerhouse in Crab Nebula

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9/28/99

X-33 Program in the Midst of Final Testing and Validation of Key Components

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9/24/99

Major Breakthrough in Treating Children with Brain Cancer:NASA Spin-off Technology Makes it Happen

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9/23/99

Scientists to Detail Chandra Finding Of Bright Ring Around Cosmic Powerhouse

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9/22/99

Marshall Center Employees ‘Give Back’ Through Community Service Day Sept. 25

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9/20/99

Chandra Images Provide New Vision
Of Cosmic Explosions

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9/20/99

Hurricane Season At High Tide; Lack of El Niño Means Active Year for Major Storms

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9/17/99

New Marshall Center Space Transportaton Boss Looks to Future

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9/14/99

Space Transportation Day ’99 To Detail NASA’s Latest Technology Plans, Programs

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9/13/99

Honduran Officials Visit Marshall Center Seeking NASA's Help to Cut Hurricane Losses

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9/9/99

Distant Supernova Remnant Imaged by Chandra X-ray Observatory's High Resolution Camera

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9/7/99

X-33 Liquid Hydrogen Fuel Tank Ready For Tests at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

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9/7/99

Public Meeting Set Sept. 13 on Eight Sites Included in Marshall Center 'Superfund' Program

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8/31/99

Severity of Hurricane Season Can Be Predicted By Studying El Niño, NASA Marshall Scientist Finds

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8/30/99

X-33’s Linear Aerospike Engine to Begin Testing Series at Stennis Space Center

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8/30/99

Three New Managers Appointed to Science Directorate At NASA’s Marshall Center

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8/30/99

Cities Bake in Hot Summer; as NASA Scientists Seek Solutions to ‘Urban Heat Island’ Effects

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8/27/99

Husband and Wife from Atlanta See Results of Efforts With Images from NASA's Chandra X-ray Telescope

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8/26/99

Chandra X-ray Observatory: Engineering Marvel of the Large, Small and Sophisticated

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8/26/99

NASA Unveils First Images From Chandra X-ray Observatory

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8/25/99

NASA’s Marshall Center Nearly Ready for Year 2000

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8/24/99

NASA, Thiokol Complete $1.7 Billion Shuttle Motor Agreement

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8/24/99

Experimental X-34 Rocket Plane to Begin Extensive Testing

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8/24/99

James H. Carter Joins NASA's Marshall Center As Deputy Director of Center Operations

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8/23/99

Media May Participate in Major Activities This Week at NASA’s Marshall Center

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8/23/99

Experts to Share First Pictures from
World’s Most Powerful X-ray Observatory

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8/23/99

First Images From Marshall Center Managed Chandra X-ray Observatory to be Released

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8/23/99

First Images From Chandra X-ray Observatory to Be Released

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8/23/99

Media Invited to Cover 'Y2K Awareness Day' At Marshall Space Flight Center

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8/23/99

NASA Scientist to See 22 Years Pay Off With Release of First Images From World's Strongest X-ray Telescope

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8/19/99

NASA Announces Partnership with Alabama to Create New National Space Science and Technology Center

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8/18/99 Alabama Governor to Visit NASA Marshall Center to Endorse National Space Science and Technology Center
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8/16/99 NASA Takes Delivery of 100th Space Shuttle External Tank
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8/13/99 Goldberg to Lead Reusable Solid Rocket Motor Project In Marshall’s Space Shuttle Projects Office
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8/12/99 Amatore Named Manager of Media Relations Department At NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center Photos
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8/11/99 Raleigh Native’s Summer at NASA’s Marshall Center Means Personal and Career Experiences to Last a Lifetime
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8/11/99 Sackheim Named Assistant Director
for Space Propulsion Systems at NASA’s Marshall Center
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8/10/99 Area Scouts to View Millennium’s Last Solar Eclipse Wednesday at Von Braun Planetarium on Monte Sano
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8/10/99 NASA Coverage of Last Solar Eclipse of the Millennium
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8/10/99 It’s Cool, ‘Space Summer" for Local Professor - - One of 54 Selected Nationwide for NASA Marshall Fellowship
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8/9/99 High-Flying Balloon with On-board Camera to Broadcast Web Images of Perseids Meteors
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8/5/99 Dr. John R. Rogacki Named Director of Marshall Center's New Space Transportation Directorate Photos
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8/4/99 NASA, Summa Technology, Inc. Sign $11 Million Contract For Fastrac Engine Flight Program
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8/4/99 UAH Professor Conducts Space Research
At NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.
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8/4/99 Keith Henson Reflects on 38 years as NASA Engineer/Manager
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8/3/99 NASA's Marshall Center Recognizes Employees' Achievements, Contributions to NASA with Annual Honor Awards
8/3/99 Axel Roth Named Director of Marshall Center's Flight Projects Directorate Photos
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7/30/99 NASA's Marshall Center to Present 242 Employee Awards at Annual Honor Ceremonies Aug. 3
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7/28/99 Scientists Prepare for a ‘Virtual’ Voyage Into Space
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7/27/99 Minority Institutions Partner with NASA's Marshall Center to Conduct NASA Education, Research Projects
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7/26/99 Chandra X-ray Observatory News Center Hours Set for Remainder of STS-93 Shuttle Mission
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7/21/99 Memphis-Area High School Students Pave Way for First Microgravity Experiment on International Space Station
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7/16/99 Get the Latest on the World’s Most Powerful X-ray Telescope: NASA Experts Available to Talk About Chandra Observatory
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7/15/99 Chandra X-ray Observatory News Center Opens July 18; Will Provide Special Media Services in Cambridge, Mass.
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7/15/99 James Kennedy Appointed Director of NASA Marshall Center's New Engineering Directorate Photos
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7/14/99 NASA, Boeing Enter Cooperative Agreement to Develop and Fly X-37 Technology Demonstrator
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7/14/99 The People of NASA’s Marshall Center Helped Propel Apollo 11 to the Moon
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7/9/99 Apollo Astronauts to Join ‘Celebrating the Past… Creating the Future’ Activities at Marshall Center Photos
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7/8/99 Marshall Center's New Rocket Team Looks Beyond the Moon Photos
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7/6/99 How To Cover NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory
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7/6/99 NASA Marshall Center’s New Rocket Team: Taking Us to the Moon and Beyond
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7/2/99 Marshall Center Selects Innovative Proposals to Reduce Space Transportation Costs
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6/30/99 Marshall Center Managers, Retirees To Be Honored For Service at NASA Headquarters Ceremony Photos
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6/30/99 Media Can Participate at Marshall Center In Briefings On Launch of Next "Great Observatory" In Space
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6/29/99 Dryden Status Report #1: X-34 Captive Carry Flight #1
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6/29/99 Jacksonville High School Students Pave Way for First Microgravity Experiment on International Space Station Photos
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6/28/99 Frank Rose Named Director of NASA
Marshall Center's New Science Directorate
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6/25/99 June 1999 Advanced Space Transportation Program Media Update
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6/23/99 More Than 450 Boys and Girls To Visit Marshall Center During ‘Take Our Children to Work Day’ Thursday
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6/21/99

Astronaut Jan Davis Returns to Marshall Space Flight Center

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6/16/99 Correction: Chandra X-ray Observatory Website URL
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6/15/99 LIVING UNDER THE LIGHTNING BOLTS:
Research Could Improve Severe Weather Forecasting
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6/15/99 Latest Status on Chandra X-ray Observatory Now Online
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6/10/99 NASA Looks For New Ways to Harness Sun's Energy for Earth and Space Photos video Audio
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6/9/99 Hendrick Named to Head Marshall Center Government and Community Relations Office
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6/7/99 Marshall Scientist is 'BATSE' over Gamma-Ray Astronomy Photos
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6/7/99 NASA Physicist Realizes Her Dreams, Discovering Two Stars with Compton Gamma Ray Observatory Photos video
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6/7/99 LIVING UNDER THE LIGHTNING BOLTS: Research Could Improve Severe Weather Forecasting
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6/2/99 Lightning Experts to Discuss Electrifying Research at Conference in Guntersville, Ala.; Media Invited to Cover
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5/26/99 NASA Scientists Push the Limits of Computer Technology
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5/26/99 Space Research May Improve Technology to Harness Light for Faster Data Processing
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5/26/99 NASA Scientist to Present Findings On Space Storms At American Geophysical Union Meeting in Boston
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5/25/99 2,000 at Marshall Set to Relocate Offices As Part of Reorganization
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5/24/99 NASA Professional Intern Program Helps Marshall Center Employees Achieve Goals
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5/24/99 'New' Marshall Center Emerges From Reorganization To Improve Customer Service and Relations
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5/18/99 X-33 Quarterly Media Teleconference Set For May 25
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5/19/99 STS-96 Space Shuttle Mission Press Kit Online
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5/18/99 Star Wars Propulsion Drives Soar Toward Reality Photos video
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5/18/99 University of Alabama Graduate Robin Henderson Promoted to NASA’s Management Ranks
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5/17/99 Susan Turner Named Manager of NASA’s X-37 Technology Demonstrator
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5/13/99 May 1999 Advanced Space Transportation Program Media Update
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5/13/99 STAR WARS . . . IT’S NOT JUST SCIENCE FICTION Faster Affordable Space Travel Isn’t That Far, Far Away
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5/7/99 X-33 Liquid Oxygen Tank Successfully Completes Stress Tests
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5/4/99 NASA Scientists Aid Law Enforcement with New Software Technology to Improve Video Quality Photos video
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4/29/99 NASA Awards $133 Million Contract Option to CSC to Continue Information Support Services
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4/29/99 X-34 Technology Demonstrator to Be Unveiled at Dryden April 30
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4/29/99 The Sky Is Not the Limit for NASA's "Rocket Girls" Photos
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4/28/99 NASA Completes Purchase of Material for 60 Shuttle External Tanks
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4/26/99 NASA to Roll Out X-34 Technology Demonstrator April 30 at Dryden Flight Research Center
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4/26/99 NASA Speaker to Give Insider's View of Commitment to Quality in Space Program
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4/20/99 Area Students to Celebrate Earth Day Thursday, to Learn About Their Planet From NASA Earth Experts
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4/19/99 Dr. Eric A. Smith Appointed Manager of Global Hydrology Research Office at Marshall Center
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4/17/99 Kansas College and Missouri High School Are Winners In 6th Annual 'Great Moonbuggy Race' Photos
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4/16/99 Former NASA Astronaut Dr. Larry DeLucas to Speak at Pharmaceutical Conference in New York April 20
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4/16/99 6th Annual 'Great Moonbuggy Race'
Is Saturday in Huntsville, Ala.
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4/15/99 NASA Studies of Urban Hot Spots and Deforestation of Guatemalan Forests to Be Aided by Landsat-7 Satellite
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4/14/99 Michael Rudolphi Named Manager of NASA's Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster Project
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4/13/99 Marshall Center Geographer Cited
As World Leader in Remote Sensing
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4/8/99 X-33 Liquid Oxygen Test Tank Ready for Stress Tests at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center Photos
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4/1/99 Space Transportation Experts Showcase Advanced Propulsion Research Photos
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4/1/99 Marshall Center's 6th Great Moonbuggy Race To Test Students' Engineering Skills
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3/26/99 Tethered Transportation in Space Photos video
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3/24/99 NASA Team Finds Atlanta Influences Its Own Weather Photos
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3/22/99 Marshall Center Boosts Alabama's Economy,Injecting $722 Million into State in Fiscal Year 1998
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3/19/99 Media Can Now Ask Questions, Submit Information Requests On Marshall Center Media Website
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3/17/99 Media Invited to Photograph X-33 Liquid Oxygen Tank Being Prepared for Testing at Marshall
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3/16/99 Marshall Center Deputy Director Griner to be Honored by Girls Incorporated of Huntsville
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3/15/99 Fastrac Full-engine, Hot-fire Test Successful Photos video
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3/12/99 NASA Works with Businesses to Create High-Tech Products of the Future
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3/11/99 What's New at the National Manufacturing Week NASA Pavilion?
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3/11/99 Space Research May Accelerate
Development of Flu-Fighting Drug
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3/8/99 Marshall Representatives Visit Schools
In Observance of Aerospace Week March 6-12
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3/8/99 NASA Space-Age Technologies Featured at National Manufacturing Week Exhibit in Chicago March 15-18 Photos
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3/5/99 NASA, Lockheed Martin Dedicate X-33 Flight Operations Center Photos
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3/4/99 X-33 Launch Site Briefing Rescheduled to 2 p.m. EST March 5
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3/3/99 X-33 Launch Site Briefing Set for March 5 Photos
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3/3/99 NASA/NIST Partnership to Pave Way For Advanced Space Observatories
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3/1/99 NASA's Marshall Center Presents Contractor Excellence Awards to Thiokol Propulsion and Hernandez Engineering
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3/1/99 NASA Exhibit, Experts in San Diego to Focus on Space Research to Improve Earth-Based Industries
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2/16/99 STS-88 Crew to Visit Marshall Center Thursday and Friday
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2/12/99 Oceaneering Space Systems Decides Not to Commercialize Underwater Facility
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2/11/99 NASA Exhibit, Experts to be in Baltimore Focusing on Space Research Improving Earth-Based Health Care
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2/9/99 Space Station Truss on Way to Marshall Center Thursday, Feb. 11; Media Invited to Cover Arrival
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2/9/99 Dan Dumbacher Named Propulsion Lab Deputy Director at NASA's Marshall Center
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2/8/99 Astronauts-in-Training, Legislators To Tour Marshall Center This Week
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2/5/99 NASA Picks Three Marshall Center Employees for Fellowships
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2/3/99 X-33's Innovative Metallic Thermal Shield 'Ready for Flight'
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1/28/99 Media Invited to Marshall Center Briefing
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1/27/99 Gamma-ray Burst Imaged for First Time
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1/27/99 Goldin to Brief Media Feb. 1 on 2000 NASA Budget; Marshall Director Stephenson to Discuss Center Outlook
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1/20/99 NASA Announces Delay In Shipment Of Chandra Observatory
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1/20/99 Researchers to Gather at NASA's Marshall Center to Discuss Space Shuttle Mission's Science Results
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1/19/99 NASA, Lockheed Martin Set Teleconference Thursday to Discuss X-33 Program Status
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1/15/99 NASA Hurricane Study Reveals "Intriguing" Results Photos Video Audio
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1/14/99 Team Conducts Dry Run of Chandra X-ray Observatory Launch Photos
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1/13/99 NASA's CAPER Sounding Rocket to be Launched from Norway to Study Earth's Upper Atmosphere
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1/13/99 New Laboratory Building to be Dedicated at Marshall For Support of Space Station Experiments
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1/12/99 Media to Get Best Chance to View NASA's Newest Great Observatory at California Unveiling Jan. 14 Photos
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1/11/99 Marshall Center to Hold Public Meeting on Proposed Plans to Clean Up Two Center Sites
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