NASA returns humans to deep space
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A Mars spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, has been AWOL. But NASA hasn't given up hope of restoring contact with the MAVEN orbiter.
Two Americans, a Japanese astronaut, and a Russian cosmonaut returned to Earth early Thursday after 167 days in orbit, cutting short their stay on the International Space Station by more than a month after one of the crew members encountered an unspecified medical issue last week.
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There's life after NASA. Friday marked the official last day for many employees who took the buyout.
Most of the NASA civil servants who participated in last year's second deferred resignation program saw their pay and benefits end Friday.
The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey telescope discovered the interstellar comet 3I⧸ATLAS - NASA explains. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Billionaire NASA chief will allow ‘exceptional’ employees to fly in his privately-owned fighter jet
Aside from offering up his jet, Isaacman is also donating his $221,900 annual salary to Space Camp – an educational summer camp in Huntsville, Ala.
NASA says it is “very unlikely” the agency will be able to recover a Mars spacecraft that has been out of contact for more than a month.
The four-person crew from NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station safely splashed down into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego County early Thursday morning.
Astronauts rarely come back early for medical reasons. They did today. The first medical evacuation in the history of the International Space Station (ISS) is happening today.
The crawler carrying the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft was built 60 years ago to haul NASA’s Saturn V rockets, then kept around for the Space Shuttle Program. Now, the vehicle is back to its original purpose of positioning Moon-bound rockets on their launch pads.