(Today, NASA recognizes a diverse workforce and uses terms such as "humans" instead.) Much of the agency's research, employees and programs were inherited from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics which was formed in 1915 in the midst of the First World War, during a need to ...
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After today’s announcement, it’s possible that these companies will consider adding a small excavation and sampling mission onto their landers. That way, they could brag that they made the first sale of space resources on another world. NASA is opening up the initiative to com...
But it seems that today’s NASA leadership has another approach to fixing the agency’s culture problems: “trying to make NASA’s shuttle program a warmer, fuzzier place,” according to the AP. “To these reformers, that means being super-sensitive about their words, their tone, their heig...
SAN DIEGO, CA-- Jun 6, 2016 - After a decade of under-the-radar research and development with private funding totaling $100 million, Dan Goldin, the world-renowned innovator who led the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) throughout its renaissance in the 1990s, today announce...
A record-breaking attempt to fly around the world in a solar-powered plane has got under way from Abu Dhabi. The aircraft – called Solar Impulse-2 – took off from the Emirate, heading east to Muscat in Oman. Over the next five months, it will skip from continent to continent, crossin...
"In a post-September 11 world, did my parents think I was crazy? Yes, I'm pretty sure they did," she said, but added that her family then gave her their full support. "It's because of that that I'm here today, and I think everyone feels similarly, but—that being said—there ...
After 800+ attempts to contact@MarsRoversOpportunity, today we’re announcing the end of a successful Martian mission. Intended to explore the Red Planet for 90 days, Oppy outlived its mission lifetime by 14+ years. Join us live now:https://t.co/zJwTTpQNwp#ThanksOppypic.twitter.com/U4...
How to watch NASA’s first space tourism launch to the ISS today NASA’s first space tourism mission to ISS delayed NASA has had to scrub the wet dress rehearsal of its mega moon rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS). The test, which had been planned to run this weekend and involves ...
"In any case, while the X-plane designation has become a very amorphous term through history, it's a term that people today now identify as being a cutting edge research sort of plane," Barry said. Perhaps of all the X-planes NASA has been associated with, none was more cutting edge ...