Astronaut Don Pettit arrived at the space station on Dec. 23, 2011. Read his journal entries as he documents his time on the orbiting laboratory.
See videos and articles about NASA's next manned spacecraft.
NASA is making steady progress on building the Orion spacecraft, which will take astronauts deeper into space than ever before.
Interns at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center share their stories of how they spent their summer at NASA.
12.13.11 - A team of nine undergraduate students from Brown and Stanford universities understood this potential and visited NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., last summer, to make the first contributions of synthetic biology to human space exploration and sustained colonization as members of a combined Brown-Stanford team.
Join Dr. Don Yeomans on Dec. 8-9, 2011, in Pasadena, Calif., for two free lectures. Or watch the live webcast online.
11.04.11 - Astronauts use computers and models of the shuttle to practice using robotic arms in space.
11.02.11 - Studying chemistry was not on NASA intern Crae Sosa's radar in high school. But chemical engineering is the right fit for him now.
10.24.11 - A team of Louisiana State University students are preparing to build a model flame trench to help Kennedy find a protective coating.
NASA puts focus on science, technology, engineering and mathematics at the Hispanic Engineering, Science, and Technology Conference.
NASA has more earth scientists on staff than any other institution in the world. Get a glimpse of earth science taking place at NASA.
10.12.2011 - Everyone knows a competition can be a wonderful experience, but sometimes it can change a career and a curriculum.
NASA's Undergraduate Student Research Project celebrates diversity by highlighting interns with Hispanic heritage.
10.05.11 - A NASA Space Grant internship shifted Luis Huizar's interest from the chemistry lab to computer modeling focusing on potable water for future generations.
Keep up with the ongoing research taking place on the International Space Station with this blog run by the team of scientists behind the research.
09.21.11 - Students from Navajo Technical College in New Mexico assist NASA with laser scanning techniques.
Founded by NASA astronaut Ron Garan, this site features blogs and projects to inspire people to improve life on our planet. Get involved and make a positive impact!
08.24.11 - This college team didn't let inexperience keep them from trying something new.
Visit this site to read profiles of people who started in education projects at NASA's Johnson Space Center and are now working for NASA full-time as a civil servants or contractors.
They came to celebrate the last 25 years of the Langley Aerospace Research Summer Scholars program, but also to talk of the agency's next 25 years.