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Widespread proposed budget cuts have left the US space agency facing an uncertain future at the same time as NASA’s intended ...
A day later, the president also "removed his nomination" of billionaire Jared Isaacman for Nasa administrator, leaving the ...
“A 25% budget cut is the most significant NASA has seen ever,” said Alex MacDonald, a former NASA chief economist who is now a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies ...
While it remained in radio contact, the transmission had, as NASA engineers put it, “flatlined.” So began the greatest crisis in the history of the fabled Voyager program. Voyager 1 and its ...
What emerges is a picture of NASA in crisis, where the bureaucratic demands of staying on schedule won out over the concerns of engineers about the safety of the vehicle. “I was in elementary ...
Neil deGrasse Tyson thinks we could all use a strong dose of the overview effect right now ... the lunar module pilot on NASA's Apollo 14 mission in 1971: "You develop an instant global ...
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said Tuesday that cooperation with Russia on the International Space Station has not been disrupted by rising diplomatic tensions over the crisis in Ukraine.
NPR's Joe Palca talks to Rob Manning, one of the engineers who solved the problem about what the moment of crisis was like.
NASA's Artemis 1 mission, scheduled to take off on Monday, is a 42-day voyage beyond the far side of the Moon and back. The meticulously choreographed uncrewed flight should yield spectacular ...