Why is Europe, Canada, Japan and the United States interested in sending a tiny, soil dwelling, vegetation eating worm to space? We invite you to ask us a question Begin Exploring Here!! and to experience the excitement of sending an experiment into space.

Walk in the footsteps of a NASA Space Biologist.

The Hyper-G ISS Centrifuge High School Team Biology Competition allows teams of high school-aged students from across the country to compete by proposing hyper-gravity (increased gravity) experiments. The selected team will have the opportunity to conduct their proposed experiment on NASA's International Space Station Test Bed Centrifuge (ISSTBC). The ISSTBC is a state-of-the-art ground based NASA research facility located at Ames Research Center in California.

Local and international winners of the 2004 NASA Space Settlement Design Contest visited Ames Research Center on June 21. After presenting their visions of where and how people will live in the future, students were given a tour of Ames facilities and the NASA Exploration Center. This year's grand prize was awarded to students from Constantza, Romania for their submission LEDA (pictured left), chosen from a total of 122 submissions from 444 students. Designs were received from across the US, as well as international entries from Germany, India, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, and Romania. The annual contest was founded in 1994 and is designed to spark students' interest in math and science.

Click here to view the picture of the 'Winner's Tour' June 21, 2004

Two major Bay area science facilities are now going to work together to develop highly advanced medical imaging technologies that could potentially revolutionize patients' diagnostics and treatment.

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