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Lawmakers on Wednesday said NASA must continue to improve astronaut crew safety on its new shuttle-replacing rocket, as well as on promising commercial vehicles that could ferry crews to orbit.
As of Dec. 1, four Painted Lady butterflies are living aboard the International Space Station.These "butterflynauts" are part of an educational experiment that was launched Nov. 16 on space shuttle Atlantis and transferred to the space station.
WASHINGTON — A congressional hearing on astronaut safety turned into a pep rally for NASA's troubled Constellation moon-rocket program, with lawmakers and witnesses endorsing it as the best replacement for the space shuttle even as critics complained the hearing was one-sided.
Tracy Buras of Bush, a service engineer with Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne at John C. Stennis Space Center, was recognized recently by NASA’s Space Flight Awareness Program for outstanding support of human space flight.
NASA’s John C. Stennis Space Center employee Justin Junell of Slidell received the prestigious Silver Snoopy award Oct. 22 during a special ceremony held in conjunction with the Stennis Health and Safety Day.
As of Dec. 1, four Painted Lady butterflies are living aboard the International Space Station.
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — A robot powered by a ground-based laser beam climbed a long cable dangling from a helicopter on Wednesday to qualify for prize money in a $2 million competition to test the potential reality of the science fiction concept of space elevators.
Seven Northfield Elementary School students, including Mackenzie Burton, Angelle Howard, Dalton Stallings, Bethany Tripp, Logan Sims, Riley Whiteaker and Alissa England, were selected from a multitude of submissions to receive invitations to a communications downlink with astronauts on the International Space Station.
I arrived late to the book party launching Maggie Hall's new paperback about Marmite, an English condiment that is perhaps the foulest compound legally sold for human consumption. Late, but not late enough: There was still plenty of Marmite left.
The International Space Station, which was crowded last week with 12 astronauts onboard, is set to go down to a crew of two Tuesday.
Today is the deadline for schools, museums and other organizations to get in their proposals to get some priceless artifacts from the soon-to-end space shuttle program.
Space shuttle Atlantis and its seven astronauts returned to Earth with a smooth touchdown Friday to end an "amazing" flight that resupplied the International Space Station.
Space shuttle Atlantis and its seven astronauts returned to Earth with a smooth touchdown Friday to end an 11-day flight that resupplied the International Space Station.
This blue-collar suburb on the edge of Los Angeles once helped send men to space. After the collapse of its aerospace industry, its ambitions are now more down-to-earth but still looking toward the future. The City Council last week unanimously approved an... Los Angeles - City Council - California - United States - Counties
A painted lady butterfly emerges (National Space Biomedical Research Institute) For the first time in history, two butterflies have survived the chrysalis stage of development and spread their wings as fully grown Painted Lady butterflies in microgravity. Although many species ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Space shuttle Atlantis and its seven astronauts returned to Earth with a smooth touchdown Friday to end an 11-day flight that resupplied the International Space Station. With bright sunlight glinting off it, the shuttle swooped through a clear sky and landed on the runway right on time. Mission Control said no one could remember such welcoming conditions; there were ...
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