Fire on the French Riviera

A month after an earlier blaze was quelled, fire returned to the forested hills above the…

COMMERCIAL SPACE TECHNOLOGY EXPERIMENT

NASA has awarded a contract to Team Encounter, LLC for a unique space science mission. NASA…

NASA OPENS NEW CHAPTER IN SUPERSONIC FLIGHT

Flight tests completed by NASA, with government and industry partners, may have demonstrated a way to…

SPACE INFRARED TELESCOPE FACILITY MISSION STATUS

NASA’s Space Infrared Telescope Facility has switched on two of its onboard instruments and captured some…

NASA HONORS APOLLO ENGINEER

Margaret Hamilton, leader of the team that developed the flight software for the agency’s Apollo missions,…

Close encounters of another kind?

The latest discovery of a large asteroid moving through our Solar System puts a spotlight on…

Winner announced for science fiction competition

Selected by an international jury out of 104 entries from 36 countries, Lavie Tidhar’s story Temporal…

ISS PACKET SYSTEM FAILS AGAIN AFTER BRIEF RESTART

After being out of service for some time, the RS0ISS packet system aboard the International Space…

How to drop in on Titan

You need to have thought of almost every eventuality when landing on a distant moon in…

SUCCESS 2002 Student Contest award ceremony

Today, at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, the outcome of the SUCCESS 2002 Student Contest…