NASA Looking for New Astronauts

Do you dream of flying in space? Now is your chance. NASA is accepting applications for the agency’s next class for the Astronaut Candidate Program.

NASA Awards Architectural Contract For Bridge Work At Kennedy Space Center

NASA has selected FIGG Bridge Engineers Inc. of Tallahassee, Fla., to provide architect engineer studies, designs and other professional services required for replacement bridges and rehabilitation of existing bridges at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center...

NASA Accepting Entries for the Third Annual Lunabotics Mining Competition

NASA is accepting applications from teams of U.S. and international undergraduate and graduate students for the third annual Lunabotics Mining Competition. The event will be at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida May 21-26, 2012.

NASA Announces International Space Apps Competition to Support the Open Government Partnership

NASA is announcing the International Space Apps Competition to support the Open Government Partnership (OGP), which President Barack Obama announced Tuesday. The challenge will culminate with a two-day event next year that will provide an opportunity...

Grail Launch Postponed Until Saturday September 10

The launch of a Delta II rocket carrying NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) has been postponed one day to allow additional time to review propulsion system data from Thursday’s detanking operation after the launch attempt...

Ball Aerospace Completes Pre-ship Review of Imaging Instrument for 2012 Landsat Mission

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has successfully completed pre-ship review for the Operational Land Imager (OLI) to fly aboard the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM). The imaging instrument is currently being prepared for shipment to Orbital...

NASA Selects Navarro Research And Engineering Inc. to Provide Environmental Management And Services At White Sands

NASA has selected Navarro Research and Engineering Inc. of Oak Ridge, Tenn., to provide environmental management and services at the agency’s White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, N.M.

New Space Station Crew Members Launch From Kazakhstan

NASA astronaut Mike Fossum, Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov and Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa launched to the International Space Station at 3:12 p.m. CDT Tuesday (2:12 a.m. local time, Wednesday) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Newly-released Portraits Show International Space Station Together with the Space Shuttle

Newly-released portraits show the International Space Station together with the space shuttle, the vehicle that helped build the complex during the last decade. The pictures are the first taken of a shuttle docked to the station from the perspective of...