NASA Headlines
A list of the most recent stories about NASA.
Private spaceship tests underway in Va, Calif
A Colorado company developing a spaceship to take astronauts to the International Space Station is having elements of its spacecraft undergo landing-related tests at NASA facilities in Virginia and California. NASA wants private firms to ferry astronauts into low-Earth orbit so it can focus on deep-space exploration and send crews ...
NASA: New pump resolves big space station leak
An impromptu spacewalk over the weekend seems to have fixed a big ammonia leak at the International Space Station, NASA said Thursday. The "gusher" erupted a week ago, prompting the hastiest repair job ever by residents of the orbiting lab. Spacewalking astronauts replaced a suspect ammonia pump on Saturday, just ...
NASA craft's planet-hunting days may be numbered
NASA's planet-hunting Kepler telescope is broken, potentially jeopardizing the search for other worlds where life could exist outside our solar system. If engineers can't find a fix, the failure could mean an end to the $600 million mission's search, although the space agency wasn't ready to call it quits Wednesday. ...
3-man space crew returns safely to Earth
A Soyuz space capsule with a three-man crew returning from a five-month mission to the International Space Station landed safely Tuesday on the steppes of Kazakhstan. Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, American Thomas Marshburn and Russian Roman Romanenko landed as planned southeast of the town of Dzhezkazgan at 8:31 a.m. local ...
Astronaut exits space station with music video
In a high-flying, perfectly pitched first, an astronaut on the International Space Station is bowing out of orbit with a musical video: his own custom version of David Bowie's "Space Oddity." It's believed to be the first music video made in space, according to NASA. Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield's personalized ...
Spacewalking repair halts station leak _ for now
Astronauts made a rare, hastily planned spacewalk to fix a serious ammonia leak at the International Space Station, and the U.S. space agency said it appeared the repair was a success. But the following weeks will be the test. Authorities have said the space station's six-member crew was not in ...
Spacewalking repair halts station leak - for now
Astronauts making a rare, hastily planned spacewalk replaced a pump outside the International Space Station on Saturday in hopes of plugging a serious ammonia leak. The prospects of success grew as the minutes, then hours passed and no frozen flecks of ammonia appeared. Mission Control said it appeared as though ...
Spacewalk planned to fix space station leak
Two astronauts will make a hastily planned spacewalk Saturday to try to fix an ammonia leak in the International Space Station's power system. Officials emphasized that the six-member crew is not in danger. The leak in a cooling system was discovered Thursday when "snowflakes" of ammonia were seen flying away ...
NASA: Spacewalk planned to fix space station leak
Two astronauts will make a hastily planned spacewalk Saturday to try to fix an ammonia leak in the power system of the International Space Station. The leak in a cooling system was discovered Thursday when "snowflakes" of ammonia were seen flying away from the station. Engineers on Earth were up ...
NASA: Space station power system radiator leaking
The International Space Station has a radiator leak in its power system. The outpost's commander calls the situation serious, but not life-threatening. The six-member crew on Thursday noticed white flakes of ammonia leaking out of the station. Ammonia runs through multiple radiator loops to cool the station's power system. NASA ...
Russia charging NASA $70M per astronaut seat
The U.S. space agency is paying $424 million more to Russia to get U.S. astronauts into space and home again, and the agency's leader is blaming Congress for the extra expense. NASA announced its latest contract with the Russian Space Agency on Tuesday. The $424 million represents flights to and ...
Russia charging NASA $70 million per rocket seat
NASA is paying $424 million more to Russia to get U.S. astronauts into space, and the agency's leader is blaming Congress for the extra expense. NASA announced its latest contract with the Russian Space Agency on Tuesday. The $424 million represents flights to and from the International Space Station aboard ...
Rocket that will carry cargo ship test launched
A company contracted by NASA to deliver supplies to the International Space Station successfully launched a rocket on Sunday in a test of its ability to send a cargo ship aloft. About 10 minutes after the launch from Wallops Island on Virginia's Eastern Shore, Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles declared ...
NASA's Cleveland center deep into asteroid work
NASA engineers in Cleveland are working on a futuristic plan to send a robot craft alongside an asteroid in space and snare it. The idea raises the fortunes of Cleveland's NASA Glenn Research Center within the space agency. "The president wants us to put an astronaut on an asteroid by ...
Space shuttle to make stop in Sun City
Keep your eyes on the skies next week. The space shuttle Endeavor will be flying over key NASA sites, including White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. It will depart from Kennedy Space Center on Sept. 17 and will refuel in El Paso on the 19th. The shuttle will then ...
Neil Armstrong, 1st man on the moon, dies
Neil Armstrong was a quiet self-described nerdy engineer who became a global hero when as a steely-nerved pilot he made "one giant leap for mankind" with a small step on to the moon. The modest man who had people on Earth entranced and awed from almost a quarter million miles ...
NASA On Defense
After President Obama unveiled his budget in 2010, I wrote a blog about how the U.S. space program had been taking its lumps in the Congress. A year later the story is much the same. As the Shuttle Discovery is on the launch pad today at Kennedy Space Center, the ...
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