Shuttle debris shows evidence of extreme heating on left wing
Posted: Wed, Mar 5 8:07 PM ET (0107 GMT)
Analysis of shuttle debris shows that the interior of Columbia's left wing was subjected to extremely high temperatures during reentry, the latest evidence that...

US aerospace employment at 50-year low
Posted: Wed, Mar 5 12:09 AM ET (0509 GMT)
The number of people in the United States employed by the aerospace industry has dropped to the lowest levels in a half-century, an industry...

Gravity Probe B faces delays, possible cancellation
Posted: Wed, Mar 5 12:01 AM ET (0501 GMT)
Gravity Probe B, a NASA mission to test Einstein's theory of relativity that has been more than four decades in the making, faces a...

Chinese scientists planning series of lunar missions
Posted: Mon, Mar 3 8:38 AM ET (1338 GMT)
China may embark on a series of unmanned missions to the Moon if the government signs off on an exploration program proposed by Chinese scientists,...

O'Keefe declines board request to reassign shuttle personnel
Posted: Sat, Mar 1 8:19 PM ET (0119 GMT)
NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe informed the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) Friday that he will not honor a board request to reassign several shuttle...

Boeing to consolidate Delta manufacturing
Posted: Fri, Feb 28 9:17 PM ET (0217 GMT)
The Boeing Company announced late Friday that it would shift manufacturing work on the Delta family of boosters currently done in a Colorado facility to...

NASA releases Columbia videotape
Posted: Fri, Feb 28 9:09 PM ET (0209 GMT)
NASA released Friday a 13-minute segment of videotape shot on the flight deck of the shuttle Columbia during the initial stages of reentry, before...

O'Keefe: ISS partners reach agreement on station plan
Updated: Thu, Feb 27 7:52 PM ET (0052 GMT)
Originally Posted: Thu, Feb 27 12:57 PM ET (1757 GMT)
NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe told lawmakers Thursday that the partner nations of the International Space Station project have reached an agreement to allow the...

ILS delays next Atlas 5 launch
Posted: Wed, Feb 26 8:12 PM ET (0112 GMT)
International Launch Services (ILS) reported late Wednesday that it has postponed next month's launch of an Atlas 5 booster because of a problem with...

Report: engineers discussed shuttle problems day before reentry
Posted: Wed, Feb 26 7:44 PM ET (0044 GMT)
New email messages released Wednesday showed that engineers continued to discuss the potential for a reentry accident involving the space shuttle Columbia up to the...