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Study Finds Thicker Storm Clouds Over Warmer Tropical Waters Affect Climate
Over warmer ocean waters, tropical storm clouds become thicker, more extensive and reflect more sunlight back into space than they do over cooler waters, NASA researchers report.

Winning Aerospace Design Sends Students On Journey From Capitol Hill To The Marshall Center
Christopher Broere and Brendan Dwyer are at that “in-between” age. For most 11-year-olds, that means the time between being a child and becoming a teenager. For Christopher and Brendan, it means being in the period between speaking to Congress, meeting some of NASA’s top officials — including NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe and Art Stephenson, director of the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. — and doing their 6th grade homework.

U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission Announces Four New Alliances
December 17 will mark the start of a yearlong celebration honoring the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers' first powered flight and the century of aviation milestones that followed. Four organizations have recently signed memoranda of agreement with the U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission to become a part of the national "Centennial of Flight: Born of Dreams -- Inspired by Freedom" campaign. As a result of the agreements, the Commission will provide outreach support to the Space Day Foundation, Challenger Center for Space Science Education, Aviation Foundation of America and Chicago Centennial of Flight Commission, and the organizations will promote the national commemoration.

NASA Plans To Explore Hollywood's Film Frontier
NASA will host the first symposium to unveil the agency's future adventures in exploration to Hollywood's most influential filmmakers. On Sept. 24, 2002, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. PDT, astronauts, scientists and aerospace engineers will present NASA's long-range plans to advance the frontiers of flight, space and knowledge. 

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