Most people are familiar with the space shuttle as the current primary means for NASA to carry astronauts into space. However as the final flights of this complex and impressive machine are prepared, the design of the next space transportation system is being debated....
Picture a sign post next to a remote building: Last gas for the next 50 million miles. A second sign sits beneath it, clarifying the location: Next stop, Mars. Last week, President Obama signed the NASA Authorization Act of 2010, which charts the space agency's trajectory...
US President Barack Obama's new space program embraces technological advances and is an improvement on the former administration's plan to return to the moon, US moonwalker Buzz Aldrin said. Dr Aldrin was speaking in Sydney on Tuesday after coming out in April in support of President...
At age 80, astronaut Buzz Aldrin has seen the world from a lot of angles: he survived 66 combat missions over Korea and took a walk on the moon. But the Luxor had a surprise for him on Saturday that added frosting on the cake to...