04.12.2013 - Administrator Charles Bolden, Deputy Administrator Lori Garver, Chief Financial Officer Beth Robinson and Associate Administrator Robert Lightfoot unveiled the President’s Fiscal Year 2014 budget request for NASA during a town hall-style all-hands briefing at Headquarters.
04.04.13 - The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), using the power and data transmission capabilities of the International Space Station, is a particle physics detector designed to search for various types of unusual matter by measuring cosmic rays.
03.13.2013 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has found evidence for a freshwater setting on ancient Mars, the terminus of an ancient river system and possibly an intermittently wet lake bed, which could have provided chemical energy and other favorable conditions for microbes
02.13.13 - NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver was joined by Bobak Ferdowsi, flight engineer for NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover mission, at a White House science news conference conducted by 10-18 year-old students.
02.05.13 - NASA astronaut Ron Garan served as the keynote speaker for the Innovation, Science/Research & Technology Track at the Susan G. Komen International Global Women’s Cancer Summit, held Feb. 4 at the Fairmont Hotel in Washington.
01.25.13 - To help develop the nation’s future heavy-lift rocket, NASA resurrected its most powerful rocket engine ever flown, the F-1, which powered the Saturn V rocket, and test fired its gas generator Thursday, Jan. 24, at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.
01.10.13 - Satellite operations are challenging all by themselves. But what happens when high flying hardware needs maintenance up close? The Robotic Refueling Mission promises to test the proposition.
12.17.12 - As 2012 draws to a close, many websites, books and cable television shows are erroneously predicting the end of the world.
12.17.12 - As 2012 draws to a close, many websites, books and cable television shows are erroneously predicting the end of the world.
12.05.12 - Building on the success of Curiosity's Red Planet landing, NASA announced plans for a robust multi-year Mars program, including a new robotic science rover set to launch in 2020.