WASHINGTON -- NASA is inviting eligible educational institutions, museums and other organizations to begin registering to screen potential space shuttle artifacts.

WASHINGTON -- NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate will begin accepting scholarship applications on Sept. 1, 2009, for the 2010 academic year. The application deadline is Jan. 11, 2010.

BEAR 3 finally launched Tuesday evening reaching an altitude of 86,394 ft. Total flight time was 2 hours and 37 minutes and landed (N 65° 14.836,00', W 147° 46.714,00') in the White Mountain Recreation Area 28 miles north of Fairbanks.

Alaska Space Grant engineering students in collaboration with the Arctic Amateur Radio Club (AARC) and researchers at the Geophysical Institute will fly a high altitude balloon to capture particulates from the eruption of Alaska's Mount Redoubt.

The Student Rocket Project successfully launched its 5th major payload launched by UAF students since the Alaska Student Rocket Program began in 1991. The SRP5 Ionospheric Sounding and Inertial Sensing (ISIS) successfully launched from the Poker Flat Research Range on January 10, 2009.

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