DOWNEY, Calif. (KABC) -- This women's history month, a NASA legend and aerospace trailblazer was honored. Ethel L. Lee, also known as "Space Shuttle Ethel," turned 99 years old. Ethel's family ...

Solar panels are next to useless in the outer solar system, so NASA’s Voyager probes rely on nuclear batteries—technology ...

Among other changes, Vanessa Wyche, who previously led Johnson Space Center, has been named NASA's acting associate administrator. NASA continues to reshape its leadership tier. The agency ...

In February 1995, she became the first woman to command a space shuttle mission. “People often ask, ‘How did I feel,’ and I joke ‘I don’t have feelings.’ Which is kind of a joke ...

What if we told you the federal branch reaching out to the gearhead crowd wasn’t even the Department of Transportation, but actually NASA ... America’s nascent shuttle design into the later ...

NASA has awarded funds to 15 trailblazing concepts for space technology that could help us explore and inhabit the solar system. The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program (NIAC) is the agency ...

NASA's Artemis campaign envisions the moon as being a crucial pit stop to prepare U.S. astronauts and their vehicles to travel onward to Mars. The U.S. company that made history in 2024 with an ...

NASA has abruptly closed its chief-scientist office, along with 2 other offices, firing 23 employees. The 10 March action leaves the agency without a way of feeding independent science advice to ...

Rockets launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, which is an hour east of Orlando theme parks. Godspeed, Athena. A Falcon 9 is set to launch a ...

“When I talk about them, I sometimes joke that they’re like the Gilligan’s Island crew," retired NASA shuttle astronaut Winston Scott said during a Feb. 13 speech at the Florida Institute of ...