Space Shuttle Pilot Set to Talk With Tennessee Students from Orbit

Congressman Bart Gordon and Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville will host a live conversation between more…

NASA Supercomputer Ranks Among World’s Fastest

NASA’s premiere supercomputer located at Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., has garnered the sixth spot…

NASA Provides Venerable Hubble Hardware to Smithsonian

Two key instruments from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have a new home in the Smithsonian's National…

NASA Develops Algae Bioreactor as a Sustainable Energy Source

As a clean energy alternative, NASA invented an algae photo-bioreactor that grows algae in municipal wastewater…

COBE Satellite Marks 20th Anniversary

NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite rocketed into Earth orbit on Nov. 18, 1989, and quickly…

Seen from Space : Hamamatsu, Japan: Battle Field of the Middle Ages and Birth Place of the Japanese Piano Industry

[release] Selection of Astronaut Akihiko Hoshide as a Member of the ISS Expedition Crew

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) would like to announce that Astronaut Akihiko Hoshide

Crew Continues Docking Preps

The crew has completed the set up of the Centerline Berthing Camera System that will be…

Mile High salute

Heat Shield Inspections Continue

The survey of the shuttle’s heat shield is ongoing. The inspection makes use of a suite…