NASA Pushes Social Media Experience to New Heights

NASA launched a social media experience at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida that quickly turned…

NASA Awards $350,000 to Winning Astronaut Glove Designers

NASA's Centennial Challenges program awarded $350,000 this week to a pair of designers who developed concepts…

Space Shuttle Atlantis

This view of the aft portion of the space shuttle Atlantis, including the three main engines,…

STS-129 MCC Status Report #08

Though it began a little later than planned, the STS-129 crew is awake and starting work…

STS-129 MCC Status Report #09

Preparations for the second spacewalk of Atlantis’ STS-129 visit to the International Space Station, transfer of…

Science Magazines Honor Cutting-Edge NASA Programs

NASA's revolutionary planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has been honored with the 2009 Best of What's New…

First STS-129 Spacewalk Complete

Spacewalkers Mike Foreman and Robert Satcher completed a 6-hour, 37-minute spacewalk at 4:01 p.m. EST. After…

Spacewalkers Deploy the Outboard Payload Attach System

Mike Foreman and Robert L. Satcher Jr. deployed the outboard Payload Attach System, or PAS, on…

Spacewalkers Working with Payload Attach System

Spacewalkers Mike Foreman and Robert L. Satcher Jr. have been working to deploy the outboard Payload…

“Get Ahead” Task Added to Spacewalk

Spacewalk planners have decided to add a “get ahead” task to today’s excursion, since the crew…