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Spacecraft Designer Maxime Faget Passes Away
Dr. Maxime Faget, one of the most prolific of NASA's spacecraft designers, passed away on Saturday at the age of…
Astronaut Gordon Cooper Dies
Astronaut Gordon Cooper, who piloted missions in both the Mercury and Gemini programs, died on Monday at his home in…
NASA Pushes the Limits with New Awards
NASA's Institute for Advanced Concepts has selected 12 proposals for further study as part of its goal of finding revolutionary…
SpaceShipOne’s Engine Designer Working with NASA
SpaceDev, the company that designed and built the hybrid rocket engine for Scaled Composite's SpaceShipOne, announced that they've entered discussions…
NASA Centres Could Be Damaged by Ivan
Although Hurricane Ivan spared NASA's Kennedy Space Center, several of the agencies other facilities weren't so lucky. The Stennis Space…
Cleaning Up Kennedy Space Center After Frances
NASA workers are continuing to assess the damage that Hurricane Frances wreaked on the Kennedy Space Center when it tore…
NASA Assesses the Damage From Frances
It's bad, but it could have been much worse. Hurricane Frances devastated Florida over the weekend, with the eye sweeping…
Final Helios Report Released
The board inquiring into the loss of the remotely-operated Helios aircraft released its final report on Friday. Helios was a…
Contractors Selected for New Space Vision
NASA has awarded the first contracts for aerospace firms to begin preliminary concept studies for returning humans to the Moon,…
X-43 Receives Guinness World Record
NASA's X-43A prototype has been recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's fastest air-breathing aircraft. The…