NASA Assigns Astronauts To SpaceX, Boeing Test Flights
Boeing's first Starliner crew will include a former NASA astronaut who commanded the last shuttle flight in 2011.
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Boeing's first Starliner crew will include a former NASA astronaut who commanded the last shuttle flight in 2011.
On the eve of announcing the first crews to blast off aboard commercial crew capsules being built by Boeing and SpaceX, NASA posted updated launch targets Thursday that, as expected, push the first piloted flights to the spring or summer of 2019.
On July 27, a lunar eclipse will be fully visible for 1 hour and 43 minutes.
This was SpaceX's 12th flight so far this year and the third for NASA featuring a previously flown first stage.
NASA has shared photos taken by its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter that show turquoise-colored sand dunes on the surface of Mars.
Roll clouds usually appear to be "rolling" about a horizontal axis, but should not be confused with funnel clouds.
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy is spearheading a 10-year plan to improve detection of near-Earth asteroids and comets that could crash into Earth.
A woman is suing NASA over a gift she claims was given to her by the first man to walk on the moon, Neil Armstrong.
"We found organic molecules in rocks from an ancient lakebed," said Jen Eigenbrode, a research scientist and astrobiologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "Those organic molecules could have come from life."
"I became an astronaut because they were flying higher and faster and further than anything else."
The first woman in space, astronaut and physicist Sally Ride, is getting her own postage stamp.
More than 15 years ago, Frosty lost heater power because of an unrelated problem elsewhere in the station.
The hope is that aircraft like this one -- flying mechanical scouts -- will eventually give scientists another vantage point from which to observe Mars.
NASA astronaut Andrew Feustel is over the moon after he received an honorary doctoral degree.
If you've ever seen an image of another world or a galaxy far, far away from NASA, it likely came from two scientists turned artists in California.
It likely won't get any easier for the seventh planet in our solar system as a new report has confirmed that Uranus does actually stink like bad gas.
A new LEGO set honoring the pioneering women of NASA, including Chicago native Mae Jemison, will go on sale Nov. 1.
The auction comes on the 48th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
NASA has announced an unprecedented mission to "touch the Sun" will be named after a noted solar astrophysicist at the University of Chicago
NASA has released the latest images of our planet at night. The view of Chicago is amazing!
Neil Armstrong collected the rocks and dust during the U.S.'s first manned lunar landing. Nancy Lee Carlson bought the artifact in a government auction, but NASA balked at giving it to her.
Astronomers have discovered seven roughly Earth-size planets very close to a cool dwarf star some 39 light years from Earth.
A SpaceX rocket soared from NASA's long-idled moonshot pad Sunday, sending up space station supplies from the exact spot where astronauts embarked on the lunar landings nearly a half-century ago.
NASA announced that Cernan died Monday surrounded by his family.
