NASA reassigns person responsible for external tank
Posted: Thu, Aug 28 7:04 PM ET (2304 GMT)
The director of the External Tank Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center has been reassigned and will soon retire, Marshall officials confirmed this...

Progress undocks from station
Posted: Thu, Aug 28 6:54 PM ET (2254 GMT)
A Progress spacecraft loaded with garbage undocked from the International Space Station on Wednesday, making way for a new cargo spacecraft scheduled for launch late...

Mars makes "close" approach to Earth
Posted: Wed, Aug 27 7:16 PM ET (2316 GMT)
The planet Mars made its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years early Wednesday, offering skygazers their best view ever of the Red...

Congress pledges to make changes at NASA after report
Posted: Wed, Aug 27 11:07 AM ET (1507 GMT)
Members of Congress said Tuesday that they would work to enact major reforms at NASA in the wake of the final report of the Columbia...

White House, NASA react to CAIB report
Posted: Wed, Aug 27 10:38 AM ET (1438 GMT)
NASA officials said Tuesday that they accepted the conclusions of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board's final report and vowed to implement them, while the...

CAIB publishes final report
Posted: Tue, Aug 26 11:34 AM ET (1534 GMT)
The Columbia Accident Investigation Board published its final report on the shuttle Columbia accident Tuesday morning, blaming NASA's organizational culture as much as any...

Delta launches SIRTF
Posted: Mon, Aug 25 8:32 AM ET (1232 GMT)
A Delta 2 successfully launched early Monday an astronomy spacecraft that is the last in a series of orbiting "Great Observatories". The Delta 2 Heavy...

Brazilian rocket explosion claims 21 lives
Posted: Sun, Aug 24 12:16 PM ET (1616 GMT)
Friday's explosion of a Brazilian VLS-1 rocket, apparently triggered by a booster ignition, killed 21 people, officials said this weekend. The explosion Friday...

NASA clears SIRTF for launch
Posted: Sun, Aug 24 12:02 PM ET (1602 GMT)
NASA announced late Saturday that it was proceeding with Sunday night's launch of the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) spacecraft. The Delta 2 Heavy...

White House rejects shuttle budget increase; non-committal on shuttle future
Posted: Sat, Aug 23 10:11 AM ET (1411 GMT)
The White House has reportedly rejected a NASA proposal to give the shuttle and Orbital Space Plane (OSP) programs a significant increase in next year'...