NASA Sits on Air Safety Survey
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Anxious to avoid upsetting air travelers, NASA is withholding results from an unprecedented national survey of pilots that found safety problems like near collisions occur far more frequently than the government previously recognized
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As a new crew prepares to lift off tomorrow for the international space station, NASA officials say they are less worried than they were two weeks ago about problems with its oxygen generator and growing shortages of food and spare parts.
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Beginning today U.S. pilots will have more reliable information about the threat of icing&#151;an airborne condition that has caused hundreds of plane-crash fatalities.
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The public may yet learn what thousands of pilots told NASA about air safety. Congress moved Monday to analyze data from a project that the space agency cast aside and then withheld results in fear they could alarm the public and hurt airline profits.
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NASA managers said the craft showed no sign of damage after the appearance of mysterious debris caused concern.
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Contradicting NASA policy in a long and bitter debate over science and safety, a panel of the National Academy of Sciences said Wednesday that the
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The CAIB report urged NASA to develop a way for astronauts during flight to inspect the orbiter and make emergency repairs to its insulation tiles and reinforced carbon-carbon panels.
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LOS ANGELES -- The historic suborbital flights of SpaceShipOne have ignited interest in space tourism, but the budding industry and federal regulators must still resolve questions ranging from ensuring the safety of people on the ground to informing
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NASA scientists were testing systems affected by a weekend power failure aboard the International Space Station. National Aeronautics and Space Administration mission controllers in Houston said none of the station's three crew members was in any danger during the blackout.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Discovery's seven astronauts do not need to conduct an extra inspection of the space shuttle's belly and wings, NASA engineers studying the spacecraft's heat shield for damage recommended Tuesday.
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NASA's safety chief said today that he could find no evidence of heavy drinking by astronauts before space launches -- undermining but not wholly dismissing reports from an independent panel on astronaut health issues that said last month that at least two such incidents that had come to its...
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There's been only one incident of a NASA crew member being impaired by drugs or alcohol close to a launch, but never on a launch day, according to a new survey of active-duty astronauts and flight surgeons.
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NASA engineers Monday were examining a problem with the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys. National Aeronautical and Space Administration officials say the observatory was placed in a protective safe mode at 7:34 a.m.
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NASA is wrestling with a potentially dangerous problem in a spacecraft that has not even been built yet.
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NASA will also try to determine whether âindications of concernâ in Capt. Lisa M. Nowakâs case were overlooked.
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Thrill seekers are plunking down six figures to ride rockets that haven't even been built yet, and a new airline called Virgin Galactic promises to be up and soaring in the next three years. Still, the budding space tourism industry faces a myriad of safety concerns &#151; in the sky and on the ground &#151; that must be resolved before any paying passenger takes off.
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By Mike Schneider  Astronauts used the international space station's robotic arm Monday to examine a spot on the shuttle Discovery's left wing where sensors detected a "very low" impact, NASA officials said.