Book Review: President’s Commission on Implementation of U.S. Space Exploration Policy
There's a classic scene in the movie Apollo 13 when scientists and engineers brainstorm solutions to "scrub" the spacecraft's air…
NASA Begins its Transformation
NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe announced a series of changes to the agency to better prepare it to fulfill President Bush's…
Wallpaper: Phoebe
Here's the photo we've all been waiting for. This 1024x768 wallpaper image of Saturn's moon Phoebe was created by the…
New Instrument Finds its First Supernova
The Supernova Integral Field Spectrograph (SNIFS), a new instrument designed to examine exploding stars, has observed its first target: supernova…
As Requested, Bigger Photos
Thanks for all your feedback, I really appreciate it. I can't believe how positive everyone was. The common thread was:…
Photo Gallery of SpaceShipOne
In case you weren't one of the 10,000 plus people who made the trip to Mojave airport to watch Monday's…
Russia Cancels Olsen’s Trip to Space
Although he was scheduled to become the third privately funded person to fly to the International Space Station, Gregory Olsen…
Deeper Analysis of Phoebe Flyby
Scientists working with NASA's Cassini spacecraft have stitched together photos taken by the spacecraft to build a complete picture of…
Space Simulator Models the Universe
A team of physicists from the University of California have built a cluster of nearly 300 computer processors capable of…
General Accounting Office Blasts NASA
Auditors with the US Government delivered a negative report this week about NASA's ability to properly estimate large projects, and…