NASA Worries About Gap in Space Flight

Sometime in 2010, the world's leading space-exploring nation will say goodbye to manned space flight for more than four years. And that has U.S. policymakers worried.

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NASA rolled the towering Ares I-X rocket to the launch pad this morning amidst a cloud of uncertainty over the future of the launch vehicle Ares I-X is designed to simulate.

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The 15 Greatest Women in Space and Aeronautics

They Are Many and Legend

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Cape Canaveral AFS, FL - A United Launch alliance Delta II rocket successfully deployed two experimental space-based missile tracking satellites into orbit this morning following launch from Cape Canaveral's Space Launch Complex 17-B.

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Former NASA Administrator Michael Griffin Blasts Augustine Committee

Former NASA Administrator and staunch supporter of the Ares I / Ares V architecture for the Constellation program recently blasted the recommendations made by the Human Spaceflight Review Committee headed by former aerospace industry executive Norman Augustine.

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PROMONTORY, UT - NASA and industry engineers lit up the Utah sky Thursday with the initial full-scale, full-duration test firing of the first stage motor for the Ares I rocket. The Ares I is a crew launch vehicle in development for NASA's Constellation Program.

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CAPE CANAVERAL, AFS - A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket successfully launched the top-secret PAN satellite at 5:35 p.m. EDT, today from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral. The Atlas V rocket carried a U.S.

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With ferocious flames and smoke in the barren Utah hills north of Salt Lake City, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Thursday successfully test fired the first stage of a new rocket that might soon be canceled.

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The largest stumbling block to a consideration of one-way missions is probably political. NASA and Congress are unlikely to do something that could be perceived as signing the death warrants of astronauts.

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(With Video) KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - Racing to orbit atop a manmade Sun through the midnight skies above Florida last night, space shuttle Discovery finally blasted off on a mission to deliver new science equipment and a now-famous treadmill to the International Space Station  …

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - Despite ongoing concerns about foam insulation on space shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank, senior NASA managers today cleared the shuttle for launch next week on a mission to outfit the International Space Station.

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CAPE CANAVERAL AFS, FL - A twenty-year era ended at Cape Canaveral today with the 48th successful launch by a Delta II rocket of a an Air Force Delta II Global Positioning System satellite.

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Discovery's astronauts wrapped up three days of prelaunch training at Kennedy Space Center with a mock launch rehearsal and simulated emergency evacuation of the shuttle this morning.

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The seven astronauts who will launch aboard space shuttle Discovery later this month flew to Kennedy Space Center today to take part in three days of emergency training as part of final training activities for mission STS-128.

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With 520 seconds of shake, rattle and roar on July 29, NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center marked the end of an era for testing the space shuttle main engines that have powered the nation's Space Shuttle Program for nearly three decades.

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Space shuttle Discovery almost didn't make it to the launch pad today when technicians had to battle a rain-drenched crawlerway that slowed the shuttle's trip to launch pad 39-A and threatened to force NASA to return the crawler transporter back to the Vehicle Assembly Building.

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Space shuttle Endeavour made a pinpoint landing at Kennedy Space Center this morning to complete a grueling 16-day space station assembly and outfitting mission and bring back Japan's first long-duration astronaut after four and a half months on board the station.

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Forty years to the day after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's historic first spacewalk on the Moon, astronauts on board the International Space Station and shuttle Endeavour conducted a seven hour spacewalk outside the orbiting complex as NASA continues to march toward completion …

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A Malaysian Earth imaging satellite was successfully delivered to orbit today on a Falcon 1 launch vehicle built by Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX), marking the company's first commercial success with the fifth flight of its Falcon 1 rocket.

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Almost 40 years to the day after the launch of the historic Apollo 11 mission to the Moon, space shuttle Endeavour rocketed into space on a mission to bring the International Space Station one step to completion with the delivery of the final component of the Japanese Kibo labora …

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Technicians at Kennedy Space Center accessed a gaseous hydrogen vent system at the launch pad to begin work to fix a leak that scuttled space shuttle Endeavour's countdown early Saturday morning.

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Three years after being formed to bring order out of a mish-mash of space-related state agencies, Space Florida finds itself fighting for its life in the midst of a barrage of criticism, scandal and investigations.

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The early months of 2009 saw steady progress being made by Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) as the company works toward the first launch of the its Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral later this year.

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - For what is expected to be the last time in shuttle history, two space shuttles are on two launch pads at the same time as NASA gets ready to launch the final mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Space shuttle Endeavor was rolled from its processing facility to the nearby Vehicle Assembly Building this morning as technicians prepare the orbiter for a mission NASA hopes the shuttle will never have to fly, a backup rescue flight for Atlantis' Hubble telescope servicing miss …

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Atlas V Successfully Launches Military Communications Satellite

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket successfully launched the Air Force's second Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite into orbit at 8:31 p.m. EDT, today. WGS-2 joins the service's first WGS satellite, which also launched on an Atlas V Oct. 10, 2007.

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