Jun 23rd, 2008 · For astronauts from Houston, who are unable to vote by absentee ballot, NASA has made it possible to cast their votes from a space shuttle or the International Space Station. NASA created special software that allows local election officials to create a ballot that is transmitted to the spacecraft.
May 25th, 2008 · NASA is poring over data after its Phoenix probe successfully landed on the Red Planet Sunday evening. The half-billion-dollar spacecraft is designed to search for evidence of life in the icy soil near the planet's north pole.
May 9th, 2008 · A Mars spacecraft carrying a DVD of thousands of names was intended to increase public interest in space missions. But the unintended consequence was lasting space memorials to Donald Duck, John Lennon, Adolf Hitler and Malcolm X.
Mar 12th, 2008 · The Cassini spacecraft is on track Wednesday to skim past Saturn's moon, Enceladus, right through the plume of an "ice geyser" that is throwing material out into space and may be fed by an underground ocean. Scientists say Enceladus is the sort of place that theoretically could support some form of life.
Mar 9th, 2008 · The European Space Agency has launched a massive new cargo ship, which is headed for the International Space Station. The robotic ship can carry more than seven tons of fuel, food and other supplies up to the station.
Jan 31st, 2008 · Fifty years ago Thursday, a 30-pound satellite called Explorer 1 joined Sputnik in orbit around the Earth, sending the United States into the space race. Replicas of the historic spacecraft are on display at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.
Jan 24th, 2008 · Four years ago, SpaceShipOne made history as the first private manned spacecraft. SpaceShipTwo, which begins flight tests this year, will eventually offer paying customers the chance to become astronauts.
Jan 17th, 2008 · Scientists are poring over brand new images of the planet Mercury, including panoramas of a side of the planet that has never been seen. The images are being beamed back to Earth from NASA's Messenger spacecraft, which flew past Mercury on Monday.