News briefs: October 19
Posted: Fri, Oct 19 10:57 AM ET (1457 GMT)
NASA will require an additional $93.1 million to pay for enhanced security, Florida Today reports. The request is part of a $20 billion package...

Mars Odyssey ready to go into orbit
Posted: Fri, Oct 19 1:02 AM ET (0502 GMT)
NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft is on track to go into orbit around Mars next week, project officials said Thursday. The spacecraft will fire its...

Delta launches commercial imaging satellite
Posted: Thu, Oct 18 5:09 PM ET (2109 GMT)
A Delta 2 booster successfully launched a commercial high-resolution imaging spacecraft Thursday afternoon. The Delta 2 lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California,...

News briefs: October 17
Posted: Thu, Oct 18 2:50 AM ET (0650 GMT)
The launch table for the new Delta 4 launch site arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Wednesday. The 650-ton table will...

Goldin to resign as NASA administrator
Updated: Thu, Oct 18 12:17 AM ET (0417 GMT)
Originally Posted: Wed, Oct 17 2:23 PM ET (1823 GMT)
NASA administrator Dan Goldin announced Wednesday that he will resign from the space agency next month. Goldin addressed the space agency's employees via TV...

Report recommends laying off hundreds of station employees
Posted: Wed, Oct 17 10:44 AM ET (1444 GMT)
An independent committee will recommend to NASA that it lay off up to 1,000 people working on the International Space Station program, Florida Today...

News briefs: October 16
Posted: Wed, Oct 17 10:30 AM ET (1430 GMT)
Several building at the Kennedy Space Center were shut down Tuesday after several suspicious packages and traces of a white powder were discovered. At least...

Galileo survives Io flyby
Posted: Tue, Oct 16 7:59 PM ET (2359 GMT)
NASA's Galileo spacecraft completed a flyby of the volcanic inner Jovian moon of Io late Monday in good shape, project officials reported Tuesday. Galileo...

Rothenberg to retire from NASA
Posted: Tue, Oct 16 7:44 PM ET (2344 GMT)
Joseph Rothenberg, the NASA associate administrator for space flight, will retire in December, the space agency announced Tuesday. Rothenberg had served as associate administrator, responsible...

Defense Department buys exclusive rights to Ikonos Afghanistan images
Posted: Tue, Oct 16 10:43 AM ET (1443 GMT)
The US Defense Department has purchased exclusive rights to all images of Afghanistan taken by the Ikonos commercial remote sensing spacecraft, company and military officials...