Today, history was made in space. For the first time, an American private spacecraft is now docked at the International Space Station. Dr. Holdren, the President’s science and technology advisor, issued a statement on “a key milepost in President Obama’s vision for America’s continued...
MORE than four decades after he walked on the moon, Buzz Aldrin has lost none of his wanderlust. The 82-year-old former astronaut, the second person to ever set foot on our closest neighbor in space (behind mission commander Neil Armstrong), and the first to be...
A brand-new rocket soared into space early Monday (Feb. 13) in a launch debut that carried nine small satellites and the hopes of the European Space Agency all the way into orbit. The space agency's new Vega rocket, which is designed to launch small satellites, blasted...
NASA's budget for the next fiscal year is likely to include deep cuts to planetary science programs, forcing the space agency to withdraw altogether from an international effort to send two new missions to Mars, experts say. President Barack Obama is slated to submit his administration's...