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Satellite Falling to Earth? NASA Scientist Puts It Into Perspective
Every satellite falls back toward earth. But when it's a giant, 12,500-pound version (about the size of an average elephant), expected to hit somewhere on earth...
Martian Road Trip: A Three-Year Journey at .00037 M.P.H.
Missions to Mars rarely go as planned. In some cases, that's a bad thing: from 1998 to 2003 alone, NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter and Mars Polar Lander, Japan's...
Travel to Mars, Cheap: Efforts Underway to Make The Red Planet Budget-Friendly
An American rocket company is partnering with NASA to make missions to Mars an easy-on-the-wallet endeavor, a public sign of the enterprising private sector that...
A Very Cool Spacecraft Visits a Very Cool Asteroid
There's usually a lot of hoopla when a NASA spacecraft reaches a previously unexplored planet or moon -- and deservedly so. Nothing gets the discovery juices...
House Pitching Death of Hubble Space Telescope Successor
In an attempt to further tighten the national belt, the U.S. House moved this week to cut the James Webb Space Telescope from the budget, effectively threatening...
10 Questions.
As someone who has flown on all five shuttles, what do you think we are losing in giving up on the program? We're not giving up on the shuttle program. I think...
Bidding for Shuttles: And the Winners Are...
Nobody does anniversaries quite like NASA. Launches and landings and all of the other things spacecraft do may be governed by nonnegotiable variables like...
A Second Dance with a Comet: NASA Returns to Tempel-1
For the past four years, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have known they wouldn't be doing anything terribly romantic on Valentine's Day this...
NASA Telescope May Reveal New Planet, Tyche
A few years ago we all thought there were nine planets. But now space is a whole lot more complicated. The hunt for the giant planet is on. When Pluto was...
NASA Images the Entire Sun, Far Side and All
It might not be obvious as to why anyone should care about what's happening on the far side of the sun. But NASA can explain: our home star is a seething,...
NASA's Second Act: Reusing Spacecraft for Return Space Missions
It's a good thing comets don't hold a grudge. If they did, comet Tempel 1 would have a few choice words for NASA when the agency's next spacecraft comes calling...
Astronauts Inc.: The Private Sector Muscles Out NASA
NASA has never been an exclamation-point outfit. The folks who work there may do extraordinary things, but they tend to talk about them in the dry and...
SpaceX Flight Launches: Could Private Space Make NASA Irrelevant?
Talk about outsourcing. NASA took a giant leap toward effective irrelevance today with the 10:43 AM launch of the Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in...
Astronomy Hysteria: Is NASA's Thursday Announcement About Life on Other Planets?
Science bloggers are going a bit nuts over the vague announcement by NASA on Monday that it will discuss an "astrobiology finding that will impact the search for...
White House: NASA Needs to Figure Out How to Save Us from an Asteroid
Someone in the executive branch watched Deep Impact this weekend. White House Office of Science and Technology Policy director John Holdren had some strong...
Has Obama's NASA Strategy Fizzled at Launch?
Never mind the tropical sun. Visit Florida and dis the space program, and the reception you'll get is going to be awfully cool. Nobody knew that better than...
No Liftoff: Obama's Plan Grounds NASA
NASA will always have fans, and they'll always be rabid — folks who love the machines, swoon over the history and long to see Americans back on the moon and...
Charles Bolden: The Next Boss at NASA?
The man at the controls of the space shuttle Discovery when it deployed the Hubble Space Telescope in 1990 now appears poised to steer NASA into its post-shuttle...
Does Obama Want to Ground NASA's Next Moon Mission?
Getting into a shouting match with the HR rep is not exactly the best way to land a job. But according to the Orlando Sentinel, that's just what happened last...
NASA at 50
Not long ago, when most of us weren’t looking, the space age reached middle age. It’s been 39 years since the first moon landing, 43 since the first...
