The astronaut heard the noise during a mission in 2003, a sound that could not be explained at the time, and neither had it ...

A lax safety culture at NASA, in addition to organizational and funding problems, led to the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia and the death of seven astronauts in February, investigators ...

Though NASA has a robust culture of safety, tragedy has occasionally struck. Three astronauts were killed during training for ...

On Sept. 21, 2003, NASA's Galileo mission to Jupiter and its moons came to an end. After 14 years of exploration, the Galileo ...

The U.S. human spaceflight program is already very different from the organization that launched the doomed shuttle Columbia and its crew of seven on Jan. 16. What remains to be seen is how much more ...

NASA selected 145 research proposals as Phase 2 of the agency's Small Business Innovation Research program. The projects have an approximate total value of $86.5 million and will be conducted by 119 ...

Drs. Assaf Anyamba, Robert Mahoney and Compton J. Tucker of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., are the first place recipients of the 2003 John I. Davidson President’s Award for ...

NASA’s Opportunity rover has officially concluded its groundbreaking mission on Mars, sending its final signals to Earth and leaving behind a legacy that reshaped our understanding of the Red Planet.

The University of California, Santa Cruz, will manage a national research program valued at more than $330 million under a new agreement between UC and NASA. The ten-year contract, a first-of-its-kind ...

On Wednesday 28 January 2004, the House of Representatives will take up S. 610, the “NASA Workforce Flexibility Act of 2003”. This legislation was introduced in the House by Science Committee Chairman ...

The bosses at NASA wanted to find out what their employees thought about them, and they got their wish: "NASA does not hold its leadership accountable for failure. . . . The more spectacularly they ...