Lower-cost space missions like NASA’s ESCAPADE are starting to deliver exciting science – but at a price in risk and trade‑offs

After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission has ...

Congress extends ISS and tells NASA to get moving on private space stations

Two months ago, a key staffer for Sen. Ted Cruz said in a public meeting that she was “begging” NASA to release a document ...

NASA Eyes Boeing-Lockheed Rocket Component For Moon Mission As Costs Skyrocket: Report

NASA is reportedly seeking rocket components from Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp's joint venture, the United Launch Alliance (ULA). Costs Ballooned In a report by Bloomberg on Wednesday, it was ...

OTD in space – March 7: NASA launches orbiting solar observatory

On March 7, 1962, NASA launched the first Orbiting Solar Observatory. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] ...

NASA selects Vulcan Centaur 5 as it fine tunes its space launch system for Artemis missions

NASA has selected United Launch Alliance’s Centaur 5 upper stage for two crewed Artemis missions planned for 2028. Here's the ...
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SpaceX Falcon 9 Set for Late-Sunday Night Launch from Kennedy Space Center

The next rocket launch from Kennedy Space Center is scheduled for late Sunday night, when SpaceX plans to send a communications satellite into orbit aboard its reusable Falcon 9 rocket.

Congress’ updated NASA directive seeks to extend space station life to 2032

A revamped version of a congressional NASA authorization act moving through the U.S. Senate would add two more years of life ...
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NASA Force: Space agency launches initiative to recruit engineers and technologists

NASA has joined forces with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on a new mission to recruit engineers and ...
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NASA must delay deorbiting the ISS, U.S. lawmakers say

U.S. lawmakers are moving to delay the International Space Station’s retirement, giving more time for commercial replacements to be built ...

NASA astronaut who had medical problem in space breaks silence

Fincke, 58, is a Pennsylvania native with a wife and three children. He joined NASA in 1996 and is now a veteran of four ...
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NASA's TRACERS to study magnetic explosions triggered by space weather

NASA's Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) mission will study "magnetic ...