Missions
Stardust is Almost Home
After years in space, and having successfully collected samples from a comet, NASA's Stardust spacecraft is almost home. If all…
Ariane 5 Lofts Record Payload into Orbit
An Ariane 5 rocket blasted off Thursday from Kourou, French Guiana carrying two satellites: Spaceway 2 broadcast satellite for DIRECTV,…
Gravity Probe B Will Tell Us If Einstein Was Right
NASA/Stanford's Gravity Probe B spacecraft recently wrapped up a year of gathering data about the Earth's gravity field. If Einstein…
Cryosat Launch Fails
ESA officials have confirmed that the Cryosat mission smashed into the Arctic ocean minutes after launch on Saturday. It was…
Gravity Probe B Wraps Up Observations
After 17 months of productive data collection, NASA's Gravity Probe B satellite has gathered all the data it needs to…
Future Titan Mission Shield Blasted By Radiation
NASA and Sandia National Laboratories have been using a powerful solar tower to test new spacecraft materials. The tower reflects…
NASA’s Prototype Solar Sail Inflates Perfectly
Sailing through space on nothing but photons from the Sun is a nice dream, but we're still years away from…
New Horizons Prepares to Zoom to Pluto
The New Horizons mission to Pluto has been called ?The First Mission to the Last Planet,? and it?s the first…
Voyager 1 Enters the Heliosheath
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has traveled so far in our Solar System that it's reached the heliosheath. This is an…
Genesis Recovery Proceeding Well
When NASA's Genesis smashed into the desert last year, mission controllers and scientists feared the worst for the spacecraft's fragile…