Space Missions
News of current and future space missions
May 10, 2011
"A Q&A with Pete Theisinger, mananger of the Mars Science Laboratory mission, which will drop a car-sized rover onto the Red Planet in August 2012."
May 6, 2011
"A wonderful set of rare and never-seen photographs of Alan Shepard, John Glenn, and the other Mercury astronauts released by LIFE.com in honor of the 50th anniversary Alan Shepard's flight on May 5."
May 5, 2011
"NASA chief Charles Bolden reflected on the significance of the 50th anniversary of American human spaceflight."
May 4, 2011
"NASA's Dawn spacecraft has reached its official approach phase to the asteroid Vesta and will begin using cameras for the first time to aid navigation."
May 4, 2011
"Here are a few basic questions and answers about astronaut Alan Shepard's historic spaceflight of May 5, 1961."
May 2, 2011
"When the Apollo 12 crew returned pieces of a moon probe to Earth, scientists found microbes from Earth inside."
Apr 30, 2011
"It may be decades before humanity sets foot on Mars, but we're only five years away from sampling space beyond our solar system for the first time."
Apr 30, 2011
"NASA's Voyager probes are at the edge of the solar system carrying a surprising message from Earth to possible extraterrestrial civilizations."
Apr 29, 2011
"More than 30 years after they left Earth, NASA's twin Voyager probes are now at the edge of the solar system. Not only that, they're still working."
Apr 29, 2011
What to expect this month from the spacecraft exploring our planetary system
