Science

While scientific debate continues over the degree to which carbon emissions derived from human activity drive climate change, discernable trends toward change in the world's climate are clear. These changes have the potential to accelerate instability,...

Global warming and the resulting climate change is an issue with far reaching security ramifications for the United States. The US has vested interests in regional stability in many critical areas throughout the world. Few of these areas are growing in...

Global warming has impacted the Arctic Ocean by significantly reducing the extent of the summer ice cover allowing greater access to the region. Greater access to the Arctic Ocean potentially threatens United States' national interests in the region...

Human activities are yielding rising atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and other gases and particulates and are also greatly altering the Earth's land cover. A scientific consensus has emerged that those activities, if allowed to continue...

The world's climate is changing. Scientific evidence clearly demonstrates an unprecedented rate of global warming is taking place. This warming is serving as a driving force behind changes to the global climate. Leaders across the globe are confronted...

In November 2011, a utility-scale solar array became operational in the most unlikely of places, at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Eastern Long Island, New York. The Long Island Solar Farm project came together as a joint effort of five very different...

A number of interstellar precursor missions have been designed, but they have all made use of unproven future technologies. This research focuses on designing an interstellar precursor mission to the gravitational lens that can be manufactured solely...

Under the auspices of globally good intentions, is the growing environmental green movement and those who ascribe to the Global Warming Theory actually detrimental to America's sovereignty? This monograph will examine the issues, including the recent...

NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER ORAL HISTORY PROJECT ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT JOE H. ENGLE INTERVIEWED BY REBECCA WRIGHT HOUSTON, TEXAS - 3 JUNE 2004Author: NASAPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Nov 13, 2014Number of Pages:...

This selected bibliography focuses on published books at the Library of Congress. It concentrates on books that describe the records, the locations of records, and the research strategies to conduct French genealogy at the Library of Congress. There are...

The Apollo space suit was basically a one-piece suit. Each suit was made to fit (custom tailored) each astronaut. Each Apollo mission required fifteen (15) suits to support the mission. The main, or prime, three-man crew each had three suits: I for...

Almost 30% of aquatic grasses worldwide are either lost or degraded (Barbier et al, 2011). The Chesapeake Bay is no exception, with levels of submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) remaining below half of the historic levels. This decline is largely...

The purpose of this memorandum (Legal Memorandum) is to supplement the preamble by providing background for the legal issues discussed in the preamble for this proposed rule and further discussion of some, but not all, of those issues. This memorandum is...

The purpose of this memorandum (Legal Memorandum) is to supplement the preamble by providing background for the legal issues discussed in the preamble for this proposed rule and further discussion of some, but not all, of those issues. This memorandum is...

Through a series of interconnecting interstate and intrastate pipelines the transportation of natural gas from one location to another within the United States has become a relatively seamless operation. While intrastate pipeline systems often transport...

The Nation once led the world in investments in research and development (R&D) as a share of gross domestic product (GDP), but more recently, the United States has been investing less in R&D than other leading and emerging nations invest. Moreover, U.S...

The Vaquita is a book about the world's most endangered marine mammal, the Vaquita porpoise. Less than 100 remain, and this book provides information on their biology as well has how to help them. Complete with original illustrations and poetry, this...

High schools struggle to get and keep students engaged in the study of science, while industry struggles to attract employees with advanced technical skills. As construction trades and science teachers, we see a great opportunity to combine the growing...

In this new ground-breaking book, the author has uncovered the mathematical formula that defines how easily The Force can be used in every day life right now, not a long time ago and right here on Earth and not in some galaxy far, far away. Those of us...

the simple universe is a new model of the origin and structure of the universe as we observe it from our local position here on earth. It is a model based on just what we can observe, not burdened with mysticism, fantasy, hypothetical dimensions, belief...

Proton Structure reexamines the original deep inelastic scattering data generated by the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It shows that the proton and the deuteron structure functions appear to peak at a proton...

Space Situational Awareness and Space Object Identification are vital to discovering and assessing space-based threats. The current ground-based mission architecture and operational concept do not provide enough detailed information on space objects to...

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...

Climate change presents significant risks to our nation's natu-ral and cultural resources. Although climate change was once believed to be a future problem, there is now unequivocal scientific evidence that our planet's climate system is warm-ing (IPCC...

As one of the most vulnerable countries globally to the consequences of climate change, Vietnam is highly likely to experience a variety of negative impacts over the next century. These include increasing (and increasingly variable) temperatures and...

NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN or Network) is a central component of the Agency's space communications and navigation capability, providing deep space missions with tracking, telemetry, and command services needed to control spacecraft and transmit data...

Since the U.S. Department of the Army (through the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers), U.S. Department of Energy (through the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy), and U.S. Department of the Interior (through the Bureau of Reclamation) signed...

This report details the early history of flight, from the invention of ballooning to the Wright B Flyer and beyond. It chroniclesthe progression of the United Sates Air Corps and its significance before, during, and after World War I. Most importantly,...

NASA's Asteroid Initiative consists of two separate but related activities: the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), and the Asteroid Grand Challenge (AGC). NASA is developing concepts for the ARM, which would use a robotic spacecraft to capture a small...

Welcome to "Risk and Exploration-Earth, Sea, and the Stars." Today's session is entitled "Why We Explore," but I'm hoping that, mostly, we can make it a dialogue, up close and personal. I'm John Grunsfeld. I'm the NASA chief scientist and an astronaut.I...