mission. The 2005 MRO will carry six primary instruments that will greatly enhance the search for evidence of water, take images of objects about the size of a beach ball, and search for future ...

Aircraft flying over Mars and supersonic transports so quiet they can fly over land on Earth are in NASA’s view of the future at Experimental Aircraft Association’s (EAA) AirVenture 2005, July 25-31 ...

NASA won a significant 2006 budget increase yesterday to $16.5 billion to fund President Bush's initiative to pursue human exploration of the moon and Mars in 2006, but killed plans to service the ...

When the Space Shuttle Columbia crashed, the investigating board declared it was as much the result of human failure as of falling foam. As the shuttle program resumes under new NASA chief Michel ...

The space shuttle Discovery made a flawless landing at a desert runway in California early Tuesday morning. The landing marks the first successful shuttle mission since the Columbia disaster two and a ...

Despite new safety concerns raised by a space advisory group, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said Tuesday the first U.S. manned spacecraft since the 2003 Columbia disaster is ready for blastoff ...

EDS Corp. has been picked by NASA to manage the space agency's travel arrangements under a $20 million contract. The company's government business, based in Herndon, has won a number of travel ...

NASA risks inaccurate accounting of its most expensive space missions because the agency is still struggling to build a modern financial management system, after more than a decade of federal auditor ...

The University of California, Santa Cruz, has taken over the operation of NASA’s Airborne Sensor Facility, a major program for observation and monitoring of Earth’s environment based at NASA Ames ...

NASA's new administrator, Mike Griffin, has told employees at Ames Research Center that he plans to cut back on the outsourcing of research projects to help NASA employees refocus on basic research.

In his first seven months on the job, NASA administrator Michael D. Griffin has announced the replacement of eight of the agency's 14 top career civil servants, a mass beheading seldom seen in a city ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- NASA said Friday it is aiming for a mid-May launch of the first shuttle flight since the Columbia tragedy almost two years ago. The launch date was the latest of several ...