NASA News & Notes
Retired astronaut Mark Kelly has a deal with Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. The story will be about a mouse who dreams of going into space.
Two and a half decades after the Shuttle Challenger disaster, a new, never before seen home video of the incident has surfaced.
Robert Lightfoot has been appointed to a high ranking position in the space agency, effective next month.
John Glenn fever has taken hold of Cape Canaveral once again.
Astronauts and robots have united in space with a healthy handshake.
The Obama Administration is requesting a nearly 18 billion dollar budget for NASA for the next fiscal year. The plan includes building on new technologies and expanding our reach into the solar system.
The Los Angeles U.S. attorney's office says a federal grand jury has indicted a Romanian citizen on charges he hacked into 25 climate-research computers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
NASA astronaut Janice Voss, who first worked for the space agency as a teenager and flew five shuttle missions in seven years, has died. She was 55.
NASA says it is still confident with the quality of Russian manned rockets, despite an embarrassing series of glitches and failures in the Russian space program.
The Rocket City Space Pioneers are asking fourth graders to help them name their lunar lander for the Google Lunar X Prize. The winning class gets a free trip to Space Camp.
Scientists say the space outside our solar system is different than within the confines of the sun's neighborhood.
Newt Gingrich's ideas about science may seem like fiction but experts say they really aren't.
The International Space Station is dodging a softball-sized piece of space junk.
After a roundabout journey, two unmanned probes the size of washing machines are heading for the moon and are poised to enter orbit over the New Year's weekend.
NASA's Dawn spacecraft is sending back the most close-up images of the asteroid Vesta since it slipped into orbit around the giant space rock last summer.
If you want to see the first six and a half minutes of the upcoming Batman film, then you need to head the the Space & Rocket Center in the next two weeks.
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and aerospace pioneer Burt Rutan say they are building a giant airplane and spaceship to zip people and cargo into orbit. The company will be based in Huntsville.
2011 marked the end of NASA's shuttle program. As the retired spacecrafts are moved to museums, America is looking toward the future of manned space travel, in both the public and private sectors.
NASA's Inspector General says the space agency seems to have misplaced some pieces of the moon, meteorites and other space stuff.
NASA's lone surviving Mars rover is looking for a place to hunker down for the winter.
Veteran astronaut Chris Ferguson will hang up his space suit for good this week.
NASA has found a new planet outside our solar system that's eerily similar to Earth in key aspects.
A long-running NASA spacecraft that's been exploring the fringes of the solar system has entered new territory.
A checklist used by Apollo 13 commander James
Lovell to make calculations that helped guide the damaged spacecraft home has been sold at auction.
If the previous Mars rover was a Jeep, the newest version is a high-tech Rolls Royce.
Russia has launched an unmanned probe on a daring
mission to reach Phobos, a moon of Mars, and to fly samples of its soil back to Earth.
Boeing is taking over a space shuttle hangar in Florida to work on its own space capsule.
NASA has transferred ownership of the retired space shuttle Endeavour to a California museum.
NASA says it has found more than 90 percent of the biggest asteroids that might pose a threat to Earth.
A NASA scientist from Alabama is being presented with a presidential award.
A dead 6-ton satellite is getting closer and closer, and is expected to smack down on Earth on Friday.
Marshall Space Flight Center Director, Robert Lightfoot says Employees are ready to get to work on the new heavy-lift rocket.
The Tennessee Valley welcomes the news of a new heavy lift rocket and hopes for new jobs in the Rocket City.
Ann McNair has worked at Marshall Space Flight Center for more than 5 decades. Tomorrow she will receive a different kind of award that goes outside the walls of NASA.
Retired NASA engineer Homer Hickam tells WAAY 31 the new Space Launch System or SLS is something
Huntsville and the Tennessee valley should be excited about
Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions has responded to the SLS announcement.
Congressman Robert Aderholt has issued a response to the SLS announcement.
Marshall Space Flight Director Robert Lightfoot is tempering the excitement surrounding Wednesday's SLS announcement with a realistic outlook.
Mayor Tommy Battle is responding to the SLS announcement.
The new SLS will be the world's most powerful rocket ever built.. and it's purpose is the one of most ambitious plans in human history.
Senator Richard Shelby is reacting to the new SLS plan.
Lawmakers and NASA officials came together in Washington Wednesday morning to make a major announcement about the future of manned space flight.
Russia's space agency says it has postponed the launch of the next manned Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station until Nov. 12, just days before the remaining astronauts on the orbiting laboratory are due to return to earth.
High wind is keeping NASA's newest moon probes on Earth longer than expected.
A new report says NASA needs to keep more astronauts on staff than currently envisioned by the space agency.
The astronauts aboard the International Space Station say ground controllers are figuring out how best to leave the complex running in case it needs to be temporarily abandoned.
A robotic spaceship circling the moon has snapped the sharpest photos ever of the tracks and trash left by Apollo astronauts in visits from 1969 to 1972.
An unmanned spacecraft bankrolled by Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos failed during a recent test flight.
Experts say there's so much junk in space that we may need to finally think about cleaning it up.
A NASA spacecraft cruising toward Jupiter glanced back and snapped a rare picture of Earth and the moon. Taken last week when Juno was 6 million miles away, the image shows two white dots, one brighter than the other.
