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Follow Apollo Mission “Tweets,” 40 Years Later
[/caption] This is just cool. Nature, the publishing group, is mixing the old with the new by "tweeting" the Apollo…
LRO/LCROSS Gives Up Launch Date for STS-127
It's a crowded dance floor and someone had to step aside. Because of Saturday's launch delay for STS-127, the shuttle…
8 Ridiculous Things Bigger Than NASA’s Budget
Why do we explore? In the days of Magellan, Columbus and da Gama, undoubtedly the average person thought it was…
Bolden Nominated as NASA Administrator; Shuttle Landing Delayed
[/caption] About the same time space shuttle Atlantis' landing was waved off today due to continued rainy weather in Florida,…
Weather Keeps Shuttle Crew in Space Another Day
STS-125 crew members aboard Atlantis (pictured above) will hang out at least a day longer in space, following foul weather that…
NASA is Running Out of Plutonium
[/caption]Decommissioning nuclear weapons is a good thing. But when our boldest space missions depend on surplus nuclear isotopes derived from…
Obama to Re-examine Constellation Program
[/caption] The White House is expected to announce on Thursday that they will order a full review of the NASA's…
Alan Shepard, Freedom 7: May 5, 1961
48 years ago today, the US launched their first human to space. Alan Shepard flew on Mercury 3, a suborbital…
NASA Begins Job Layoffs As Shuttle Retirement Looms
[/caption] NASA began the first round of job layoffs today as the space agency prepares to retire its fleet of…
The NASA Buzz: Shuttle Extension, Abandoning the Moon, and What About an Administrator?
[/caption] The blogosphere and Twitterverse has been buzzing the past couple of days with NASA what-ifs and possibilities. But that…