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What might be the next vehicle to carry astronauts to space and back will be inspected by top NASA officials Wednesday at Dryden Flight Research Center north of Los Angeles.

Through a labyrinth of hallways deep inside a 1950s-era building that has housed research that dates back to the origins of U.S. space travel, a group of scientists in white coats is stirring, mixing, measuring, brushing and, most important, tasting the end result of their cooking.

NASA has awarded a mechanical engineer a grant worth $125,000 to help him create a 3D printer for food.

The multi-axis milling machine works while NASA Associate Administrator Robert Lightfoot visits Marshall Building 4705, as master machinists show off what NASA says is one of the world's largest multi-axis milling machines in a key job for the space agency Wednesday, May 22, 2013 in Huntsville, Ala.

NASA can send robots to Mars, no problem. But if it's ever going to put humans on the Red Planet, it has to figure out how to feed them over the course of a years-long mission.

In late June 2013, the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, will launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.

The D-Wave processor must be shielded from outside interference inside an ultra-cold refrigerator in order to enter a quantum state.

A 3-D printer generates the Nestle logo in Orbe, March 25. NASA is funding a 3-D printer that can produce edible food, from chocolate to pizza and more.

British actress Alice Eve is convinced Nasa experts are hiding discoveries of alien life after taking part in an online chat with Nasa astronauts as part of her promotional duties for the new Star Trek movie.

This animation of imagery from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite shows the movement of storm systems in the south central U.S. on May 19 and 20, 2013.

In preparation for Star Trek : Into Darkness, we have been rewatching all of the old Next Generation episodes.

Satellite images released by NASA show Monday's Oklahoma City storms just as they were starting.

Pulsars have a number of unusual qualities. Like zombies, they shine even though they're technically dead, and they rotate rapidly, emitting powerful and regular beams of radiation that are seen as flashes of light, blinking on and off at intervals from seconds to milliseconds.

Google and NASA have joined forces to launch the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab that will allow researchers at the two organizations and a number of universities to research artificial intelligence using quantum computers.

In an unprecedented move for NASA Ames Research Center, historic Hangar One at Moffett Field is being offered up for any use akin to its original purpose -- no ties to NASA's mission required.

NASA's Landsat satellites have been snapping pictures of the Earth from orbit since 1972.

NASA and President Obama are honoring the life and legacy of Sally Ride on the day a national tribute was held for the first American woman in space.

NASA is routinely thought of as the our precursor to the fictional Starfleet Academy, and recently, astronauts interacted with "Star Trek Into Darkness" stars to discuss the intersection between "Star Trek" and NASA's current programs.

Last week, NASA astronomers monitoring the Moon saw an explosion larger than anything they've seen before .

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity used its front left Hazard-Avoidance Camera for this image of the rover's arm over the drilling target "Cumberland" during the 275th Martian day, or sol, of the rover's work on Mars .