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NASA has agreed to search its archives once again for documents on a 1965 UFO incident in Pennsylvania, a step the space agency fought in federal court. The government has refused to open its files about what, if anything, moved across the sky and crashed in the woods near Kecksburg, Pa., 40 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.
NASA said Thursday it dropped a multimillion-dollar contract with an aerospace company because the firm failed to secure enough private financing to develop a new commercial spaceship.
A federal appeals court on Friday approved a request by some NASA workers to block a Bush administration directive requiring background checks and access to personal information that they allege amounts to an invasion of privacy.
A federal judge denied a request Wednesday by more than two dozen workers at one of NASA's research labs to block a Bush administration directive requiring background checks and access to personal information.
At NASA, once again, the problem is its culture — a habit of dismissing the concerns of knowledgeable underlings.
Dennis V. Byrnes, a veteran engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, fired off a 1,300-word letter to his congressman in April complaining of "unwarranted intrusion" into his life.
The head of NASA told scientists and engineers that he regrets airing his personal views about global warming during a recent radio interview, according to a video of the meeting obtained by The Associated Press.
NASA's top lawyer said Thursday that he destroyed several DVD recordings of a talk between the space agency's boss and the staff of its internal watchdog office because he wanted to make sure the meeting details weren't made public.
The gunman in an apparent murder-suicide at the Johnson Space Center targeted a NASA worker he feared could get him fired, police said Saturday.
NASA is concentrating on a review of its security procedures as officials try to figure out how a contract worker smuggled a handgun into the Johnson Space Center, where he killed another employee and himself, a spokesman said Saturday.
NASA's top watchdog routinely tipped off department officials to internal investigations and quashed a report related to the Columbia shuttle explosion to avoid embarrassing the agency, investigators say.
The ARES plane soars over the Martian surface (Illustration: NASA)
The HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is the most powerful camera ever sent beyond Earth orbit (Illustration: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
The chairman of the U.S. House science committee said Thursday that NASA is headed for "a train wreck" if the space agency isn't better funded to finish building the international space station and develop the next-generation spacecraft.
Long renown as a place for fun, Hawaii hopes to become a place for serious investment in space exploration with an agreement signed this week with the California-based NASA Ames Research Center.
The keen sight of the HiRISE camera on MRO found no trace of the lander in the crater where it was thought to lie (Image: NASA)
Lisa Nowak printed out the maps she used to drive to Florida two weeks ago, according to printouts found in her car (Image: NASA)
The Ares I rocket may not fly until after 2014 (Illustration: NASA/MSFC)
The ACS's "discovery efficiency" for recording faint objects is three to four times higher at visible wavelengths than a new instrument, called WFC3, to be installed in 2008 (Illustration: STScI)
Michael Lopez-Alegria will disconnect fluid-filled cooling lines in an area NASA refers to as the "rat's nest" – he will be prepared for a potentially dangerous leak of ammonia coolant (Illustration: NASA)
A basketball-size robot sits on the surface of an asteroid after unfolding its spherical shell, while its parent spacecraft hovers in the background (Illustration: Ball Aerospace)
Saturn’s rings glow especially bright in this enhanced-colour mosaic from the Cassini spacecraft, assembled from images taken while the Sun was hidden behind Saturn itself (Image: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute)
This graphic shows how far the P6 solar array (two short panels in centre) was able to retract on Wednesday (Illustration: NASA)
Members of the station and shuttle crews pose for a group picture in the Destiny laboratory shortly after the hatches between the two vehicles were opened (Image: NASA TV)
Manager says redesigned suborbital plane could be ready as early as 2010 Rocketplane Global super-sized its suborbital spaceship on Friday, unveiling an upgraded design that boosts the craft's capacity to five passengers plus a pilot.
Discovery shuttle astronauts begin the difficult job of attaching an Italian-made module to the International Space Station. The project is expected to take ten days.
HU JINTAO, China's Communist Party leader, could hardly have asked for such perfect timing. Or maybe he did.
Despite criticism from Mothers Against Drunk Astronauts, the good times continue to roll.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which has a mandate to enhance the safety of air travel, has been suppressing huge quantities of data that apparently show the risks for civilian aircraft are much higher than commonly estimated.
Big chunks of a moon that was smashed long ago perhaps by a comet have been detected in Saturn's outermost ring, scientists say. They say this may shed light on the formation of the planet's grand ring system.
"Space Shuttle Discovery has begun a 14-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS), after a successful launch from the Kennedy Space Center. "
The shuttle Discovery, carrying seven astronauts and a critical connecting module for the international space station, roared to life and rocketed into orbit today, kicking off a high-stakes five-spacewalk mission considered by many the most complex orbital construction work ever …
Anxious to avoid upsetting air travelers, NASA is withholding results from an unprecedented national survey of pilots that found safety problems like near collisions and runway interference occur far more frequently than the government previously recognized.
These 5 striking images are among 143 high-resolution color images of Mars released yesterday by NASA. These are the first color images from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Nine years after the United States and Russia began building the international space station, NASA is poised for what many agency insiders consider the most difficult assembly mission attempted to date, one that will test the limits of orbital construction.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Clocks at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida began ticking down on Saturday toward Tuesday's planned launch of the space shuttle Discovery on a construction mission to the International Space Station.
"As one female astronaut commands the shuttle Discovery, another will assume the leadership post on the space station"
Orphan Stars Imagine an entire galaxy of stars spinning overhead. The galaxy's blue-white core of young stars is surrounded by yellow octopus-arms of older siblings.
Senior NASA managers today cleared the shuttle Discovery for launch Oct. 23 on a critical space station assembly mission, concluding concern about the integrity of a protective coating on three of 44 wing leading edge panels did not warrant a lengthy delay.
The Spaceward Foundation launched a 2007 Beam Power Challenge competition where the teams could compete to build a Space Elevator.
EO Newsroom: New Images - Arctic sea ice reached a record low in September 2007, below the previous record set in 2005 and substantially below the long-term average.
NASA scientist James E. Hansen predicts coming Ice Age.
Top NASA officials will decide today whether to proceed with the planned launch of the space shuttle Discovery next week or to stand down and replace several heat shield panels lining the orbiter's wings.
Looks like they figured out the problem with the space station's computers and it is not pretty.
Undular bores, or mysterious atmospheric waves, are ubiquitously prevalent on Earth and may be important factors in severe weather.
New images of Pluto and its moons are among the sharpest ever made, astronomers announced Friday.
The Soyuz TMA-11 capsule, carrying incoming space station commander Peggy Whitson, Russian flight engineer Yuri Malenchenko and Malaysia's first astronaut, docked with the international space station Friday to close out a two-day orbital chase.
NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson arrived at the International Space Station Friday to begin her tenure as the first woman to command a station mission.
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