NASA Turns to Elon Musk, Space X to Bring Stranded Astronauts Back to Earth
In a move that underscores NASA’s unwavering commitment to safety, the agency has decided to bring Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft back to Earth without astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aboard. Instead, the…
Texas company forfeits proceeds and pays fine after supplying potentially tainted rocket fuel to NASA
HOUSTON – Anahuac Transport Inc. must pay a substantial fine after admitting to fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery. Corporate representatives Gary Monteau and Brant Charpiot admitted their guilt Feb. 23…
China rejects NASA accusation it will take over the moon
BEIJING – China on Monday rejected as an irresponsible smear a warning from the chief of NASA that China might “take over” the moon as part of a military programme, saying it…
NASA chief Bill Nelson tests positive for COVID
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON – NASA administrator Bill Nelson tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday night, the U.S. space agency chief said on Wednesday. Nelson was poised to attend an event at…
NASA Introduces 2022 Class of Flight Directors
WASHINGTON, June 22, 2022 — Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí. NASA has selected seven new additions to the team of flight directors to oversee operations of the International Space Station, commercial…
Astra’s NASA mission suffers failure, loss of weather satellites
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON -Rocket firm Astra Space’s mission to send tiny storm-monitoring NASA satellites to orbit on Sunday failed after a second-stage booster engine shut down early in space. The failure…
NASA Chooses Small Businesses to Continue Exploration Tech Development
WASHINGTON, April 28, 2022 — NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program has chosen 110 U.S. small businesses for continued technology development. The range of projects support space exploration and improvements to…
Sanders seeks to cut $10 billion funding proposal for new NASA lunar lander
By Joey Roulette and David Shepardson WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders asked lawmakers to delete language from a bill that would fund development of a new lunar lander for NASA, a…
Amazon, SpaceX snag NASA space communications contracts
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON – Amazon’s satellite venture, SpaceX’s Starlink network and other satellite firms on Wednesday won a combined $278.5 million in contracts from NASA to demonstrate communications in space as…
NASA Names Winners of Lunar Robotics Design Contest
WASHINGTON, March 29, 2022 — NASA has chosen two students as winners of the Lunabotics Junior Contest, a national competition for K-12 students featuring the agency’s Artemis missions. Contestants were charged with…
Texas company convicted for supplying potentially tainted rocket fuel to NASA
HOUSTON – Anahuac Transport Inc. has pleaded guilty to fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery. Corporate representatives Gary Monteau and Brant Charpiot admitted their guilt today on behalf of the company.…
NASA celebrates another successful East Coast rocket launch in Virginia
A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, with the company’s Cygnus spacecraft onboard, launches at 12:40 p.m. EST, Saturday, Feb. 19., 2022, from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport’s Pad-0A, at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in…
Brevard County Woman Sentenced To Federal Prison For Falsifying Records Related To NASA Investigation
Orlando, FL – U.S. District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza has sentenced Stacy R. Caruvana (47, Rockledge) to six months in federal prison for falsifying records with intent to obstruct and influence a…
NASA Launches Kamikaze Rocket To Collide With Threatening Asteroid
NASA and Elon Musk’s aerospace company, SpaceX, launched a test rocket designed to crash into asteroids that may threaten the existence of life on Earth. NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), a…
NASA’s Mars Helicopter to make first flight Sunday
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is two days away from making humanity’s first attempt at powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet. If all proceeds as planned, the 4-pound (1.8-kg) rotorcraft…
NASA to drop test 14,000 pound Orion Space Craft and you can watch it happen
Engineers will drop a 14,000-pound test version of the Orion spacecraft into the Hydro Impact Basin at NASA’s Langley Research Center’s Landing and Impact Research Facility in Hampton, Virginia, at 1:45 p.m. EDT Tuesday, April…
Joe Biden tells NASA engineer Indian-Americans are taking over our country
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A playful President Joe Biden this week told NASA Engineer Swati Mohan that Indian American’s are taking over the country. After thanking President Biden for taking the time to…
NASA is sending a helicopter to Mars
With the launch period of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover opening in 14 weeks, final preparations of the spacecraft continue at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In the past week, the…
An amazing before and after of how coronavirus has lowered pollution levels in northeastern U.S.
The coronavirus, which has been keeping Americans indoors for the past few weeks has also been keeping planes out of the sky, cars off the road, factories closed and in general, people…
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