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...

ESA approves contracts for Vega booster
Posted: Wed, Feb 26 1:44 PM ET (1844 GMT)
The European Space Agency and several companies signed contracts Tuesday to complete the development of Vega, a small launch vehicle. ELV, an Italian company jointly...