Boeing wins Ares avionics contract
Posted: Thu, Dec 13 8:17 AM ET (1317 GMT)
NASA announced Wednesday that it has selected Boeing as the prime contractor for the avionics system on the Ares 1 launch vehicle, the last major...

Shuttle tanking test planned
Posted: Wed, Dec 12 8:36 AM ET (1336 GMT)
NASA will perform a fueling test of the shuttle Atlantis next week in an effort to understand why fuel cutoff sensors in the shuttle's...

NASA mission to study lunar interior
Posted: Wed, Dec 12 8:23 AM ET (1323 GMT)
NASA announced Tuesday that it will launch a mission early next decade to studying the interior of the Moon. The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (...

Atlas launches NRO satellite
Posted: Tue, Dec 11 8:50 AM ET (1350 GMT)
An Atlas 5 launched a classified spacecraft for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) on Monday evening. The Atlas 5 401 lifted off from Cape Canaveral...

Voyagers discover solar system "squashed"
Posted: Tue, Dec 11 8:40 AM ET (1340 GMT)
NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft have revealed that the solar system in "squashed" relative to the interstellar medium, scientists said Monday. Voyager 2 cross into...

Cassini images help explain moon formation
Posted: Mon, Dec 10 8:41 AM ET (1341 GMT)
Several years' worth of images collected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft have allowed scientists to measure the unusual shapes of some of Saturn's small...

Shuttle launch scrubbed, postponed to January
Posted: Sun, Dec 9 11:29 AM ET (1629 GMT)
NASA scrubbed Sunday's planned launch of the space shuttle Atlantis after another fuel sensor failed early in the morning, and shuttle managers later decided...

Delta launches Italian satellite
Posted: Sun, Dec 9 10:47 AM ET (1547 GMT)
A Delta 2 successfully launched an Italian remote sensing satellite on Saturday evening after several days of delays. The Delta 2 7420-10 lifted off...

Russia launches military satellite
Posted: Sun, Dec 9 10:33 AM ET (1533 GMT)
A Proton rocket launched a Russian military satellite early Sunday. The Proton-M rocket lifted from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 7:16 pm EST Saturday (...

Shuttle launch pushed back to Sunday
Posted: Sat, Dec 8 10:10 AM ET (1510 GMT)
NASA announced late Friday it would make its next attempt to launch the shuttle Atlantis on Sunday, one day later than previously planned, to allow...