NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Chandra views magnetar SGR 0418, a type of neutron star with a relatively slow spin rate that generates occasional large blasts of X-rays.

NASA engineers recently flipped a 1,000-pound adapter to prepare for Exploration Flight Test 1 in 2014 and Space Launch System flight in 2017.

The Aerospace Club of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., took first prize in the 2013 annual NASA Student Launch Projects challenge.

NASA'S Marshall Space Flight Center has named Irma C. Burden director of the Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity.