NASA is returning to the moon to build a sustainable long term human presence. The Constellation Program is building the Ares rockets and Orion crew capsule.
NASA is returning to the moon to build a sustainable long term human presence. The Constellation Program is building the Ares rockets and Orion crew capsule.
A pair of missions will map the lunar surface and search for water at the south pole.
Using a NASA radar flying aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, scientists are getting their first look inside the moon's coldest, darkest craters.
The first definitive detection of methane in the atmosphere of Mars indicates the planet is still alive, in either a biologic or geologic sense, according to scientists.
A development engine assisting NASA with the Altair lunar lander design completes a round of testing.
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has successfully completed thermal vacuum testing, which simulates the extreme hot, cold and airless conditions of space LRO will experience after launch.
Their names are now part of exploration history -- Sea of Tranquility, Ocean of Storms, Frau Mauro, Hadley Rille, Descartes and Taurus-Littrow.
01.16.09 - Using a NASA radar flying aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, scientists are getting their first look inside the moon's coldest, darkest craters.
01.16.09 - NASA astronauts who recently returned from a trip to the International Space Station will join representatives from across the country and the nation's armed forces in the 56th Inaugural Parade.
01.15.09 - A team of NASA and university scientists has achieved the first definitive detection of methane in the atmosphere of Mars.
12.11.08 - MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., -- The X PRIZE Foundation will reveal the identities of a ?Mystery Team? competing for the $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE at NASA?s Ames Research Center on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008.
03.3108 - The briefing will be at 1:15 p.m. MDT on April 8 in Colorado Springs, Colo.