Griffin to be new NASA administrator
Posted: Fri, Mar 11 5:23 PM ET (2223 GMT)
The White House announced Friday afternoon that it intends to nominate Michael Griffin as the next administrator of NASA. Griffin is currently the head of...

NASA plans job cuts
Posted: Fri, Mar 11 9:26 AM ET (1426 GMT)
NASA officials said Thursday that the agency is planning on cutting up to 15 percent of its workforce by next summer in an effort to...

Atlas 5 launch scrubbed
Posted: Thu, Mar 10 9:24 PM ET (0224 GMT)
The launch of an Atlas 5 carrying a heavy communications satellite was scrubbed Thursday because of a technical glitch late in the countdown. The Atlas...

SpaceShipOne to go to Smithsonian
Posted: Thu, Mar 10 4:53 AM ET (0953 GMT)
SpaceShipOne, the first privately-developed manned spacecraft to fly into space, will be donated to the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum (NASM)...

Hubble finds mass limit for stars
Posted: Thu, Mar 10 4:45 AM ET (0945 GMT)
Observations by the Hubble Space Telescope have shown that stars do not get any heavier than 150 times the mass of the Sun, astronomers said...

Progress spacecraft reenters
Posted: Wed, Mar 9 9:29 PM ET (0229 GMT)
A Progress cargo spacecraft that undocked from the International Space Station over a week ago has finally reentered, Russian officials said Wednesday. Progress M-51,...

Cablevision deal buys time for Voom
Posted: Wed, Mar 9 8:57 AM ET (1357 GMT)
Cablevision announced late Tuesday that it has reached a deal with its own chairman to keep the Voom satellite TV service alive at least through...

Boeing fires CEO
Posted: Mon, Mar 7 7:35 PM ET (0035 GMT)
The Boeing Company announced Monday morning that it had fired its CEO and president, Harry Stonecipher, after the company discovered he was having an affair...

Rosetta flies past Earth
Posted: Sun, Mar 6 10:40 AM ET (1540 GMT)
ESA's Rosetta spacecraft flew past Earth late Friday in the first of a series of flybys en route to a comet. Rosetta, launched a...

Air Force ends Boeing launch ban
Posted: Sat, Mar 5 10:15 AM ET (1515 GMT)
The US Air Force announced late Friday that it has lifted a contracting ban on Boeing for launch services, satisfied that the ethical lapses that...