Astronaut Memorial Ceremony took place Sunday to honor the 17 NASA crew members lost in the Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia tragedies.
The loss of space shuttles Challenger and Columbia, and the Apollo 1 fire bring reflection and inspiration for a new future ...
"We must honor their sacrifice by fortifying our commitment to safety and excellence as new generations of space explorers, follow their footsteps." ...
The Apollo I and space shuttle Challenger and Columbia astronauts were remembered during an annual ceremony at Kennedy Space ...
This recap was current as of early this morning (January 19). Sixty-two members of California Urban Search and Rescue (US&R) ...
Commercial airlines had to divert or delay their flights to avoid debris from the SpaceX Starship spacecraft that exploded ...
In 2011, the 30-year space shuttle program ended as Atlantis touched down at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. With five shuttles ...
On April 12, 1981, NASA's inaugural space shuttle flight launched astronauts John Young and Bob Crippen aboard Columbia ... becoming the first human satellites to orbit Earth.
On this date in 1986, outgoing NASA Administrator, then-U.S. Rep. Bill Nelson and six additional astronauts launched aboard Space Shuttle Columbia on STS 61C. Shuttle flights had become fairly routine ...
Space science and robotic exploration typically lose out to things like human spaceflight. Even though the next administrator will need to make hard decisions, the next few years will be full of ...
NASA administrators are also accountable to elected officials. Administrators are appointed by the president but must be confirmed by the Senate. Congress has a great deal to say about the budget that ...
The current NASA administrator, Bill Nelson, is both a former senator and a former astronaut, having gone to space on the shuttle Columbia in ... out to things like human spaceflight.