ISS agencies proclaim benefits of station's scientific, engineering, utilisation, and education potential
While NASA budget-keepers focus on setting future priorities for the space agency, many in the world space community is trying to turn attention to the benefits a mostly complete International Space Station will provide global science.
Discovery mission will launch on April 5, carrying a big storage unit that will be filled with science racks for ISS laboratories
While politicians banter about NASA’s budget and the future of manned space flight, the space agency is prepping the critical technology its remaining four space shuttle missions will deliver to complete the International Space Station.
After some in Congress hit plan to scrap NASA moon mission, Obama moves to explain
In an effort to curb rising resistance in Congress to a new NASA strategy, President Barack Obama will hold a summit next month to explain his vision for America's future in space.
Seven-window cupola central command for robotics work
Early this morning, NASA astronauts "raised the curtain" on a set of windows with the best view of the world the International Space Station has to offer.
A NASA astronaut is taking questions via Twitter for the crew of the space shuttle Endeavour, scheduled to launch Feb. 7
Ever wanted to ask an orbiting astronaut what it's really like up there? Is the food any good? Can you sleep well in zero-g? And, of course, is that urine recycler still acting up?
Space agency gets into software-as-a-service
NASA is aiming to improve its climate research capabilities by creating a software-as-a-service interface for scientists and students who need to build complex climate models.
After six years roaming across and working on Mars, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has been deemed permanently stuck in dirt on the planet's surface.
NASA continues to listen for signs of life from robot frozen near Martian north pole
All was silent this week as NASA listened intently for signs of life from its long-frozen robotic Lander, sitting in the cold and dark near the northern pole of Mars.
Looking to sell a few used vehicles, space agency drops price to $28.8M
Looking to buy a new vehicle at a bargain price?
Robotic Lander craft has sat silently in Martian deep freeze for more than a year
More than a year after the Phoenix Mars Lander appeared to effectively freeze to death on the surface of the Red Planet, NASA is getting ready to listen for signs that it's still alive.
Management of cloud assets requires protocols, standards, and research, Internet protocol designer says
Vint Cerf, a co-designer of the Internet's TCP/IP protocols and considered a father of the Internet itself, emphasized the need for data portability standards for cloud computing during an appearance on Thursday evening.
NASA images from its Kepler, Hubble, Spitzer, Chandra telescopes highlight space show
In the past few days there has been a burst of new photos and information from all manner of NASA's spacecraft and telescopes. The devices, ranging from the Hubble to Kepler the Spitzer telescopes, are delivering new information on everything from massive supergiant stars to new planets. Here we've gathered up some of them for a quick look.
Upgraded telescope captures images of 7,500 galaxies - some from 13 billion-plus years ago
Less than a year after getting a major overhaul, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped panoramic, full-color images that let astronomers peer more than 13 billion years back into cosmic history.
Space agency plans to choose between three potential missions by mid-2011
NASA is in the process of deciding on the focus of its next major space venture, which would cost about $650 million and take about eight years.
As NASA celebrates its Mars rover Spirit’s sixth anniversary exploring the red planet it is hunting for a way to keep the machine, which is mired in a sand trap, alive to see a seventh year. On its Web site, the space agency this week noted there may indeed be such an option.
