SAFER SHUTTLE SOLID ROCKET MOTOR

NASA’s Space Shuttle program successfully fired a full-scale Reusable Solid Rocket Motor, testing modifications that will…

RESEARCH ON AFRICAN MONSOONS

NASA and University of Maryland scientists have found the African monsoon consists of two distinct seasons.…

SHUTTLE PROCESSING STATUS REPORT: S04-15

The Space Shuttle fleet is housed and processed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Fla. The…

CASSINI SPACECRAFT NEARS SATURN TOUR

The most complex interplanetary mission ever launched is about to meet one of the solar system’s…

SAFARI VIA VAST AFRICAN TOPOGRAPHY

Newly released topographic data sets from NASA and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) provide twenty first…

PRESIDENT REAGAN HONORED FROM SPACE

Astronaut Mike Fincke and cosmonaut Gennady Padalka paid tribute to President Ronald Reagan during a video…

DEFORESTATION MAY AFFECT AMAZON CLIMATE

NASA satellite data are giving scientists insight into how large-scale deforestation in the Amazon Basin in…

Perspective view of Melas Chasma

On 2 May 2004, the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board the ESA Mars Express spacecraft…

Evidence of flooding on Mars

These images of fluvial surface features at Mangala Valles on Mars were obtained by the High…

ROVERS CONTINUE UNIQUE EXPLORATION OF MARS

NASA’s Mars Opportunity rover began its latest adventure today inside the martian crater informally called Endurance.…