Nasa man 'faked safety checks'
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A former US space agency worker pleads not guilty to charges he faked reports of space shuttle safety checks.
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By MIKE BRANOM     ORLANDO, Fla.  -- A former NASA safety inspector accused of falsifying examinations of crucial parts on the space shuttle Discovery pleaded not guilty Friday in federal court, and his attorney called him "meticulous in his work."    A trial for Billy T...
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IOWA CITY, Iowa A NASA scientist has charged that the Bush administration is subverting science and misleading the public by trying to suppress or alter evidence on the dangers of global warming.
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ORLANDO, Fla. He was supposed to be doing safety inspections on the space shuttle fleet -- sometimes inspecting parts that were so crucial, their failure could destroy the shuttle.
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NASA officials said that a problem seen in an electrical generator presents a Âminimum risk.Â
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By John Schwartz THE NEW YORK TIMES  Like most of today's astronauts, Navy Capt. Lisa Marie Nowak worked in relative obscurity -- even last July, when she took the spaceflight that she had spent 10 years at NASA hoping for.
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NASA's top official expressed regret Wednesday over his agency's stated reason for refusing to make public a survey on air safety problems through the eyes of the nation's pilots. He dismissed any idea that the space agency would put commercial interests ahead of public safety.
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By Mark CarreauReporters return to NASA's Johnson Space Center on Thursday with questions in the backs of their minds, if not on the tips of their tongues, about astronaut Lisa Nowak's allegedly criminal actions last week.
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Astronauts and NASA  flight surgeons overwhelmingly dismissed reports of a  crewmember flying drunk, although they did confirm a single  incident of an astronaut seemingly inebriated a few days before  liftoff, an employee survey released on Wednesday showed.
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NASA scientists are studying the man who was the basis for Dustin Hoffman&#39;s character in the 1988 film &quot;Rain Man,&quot; hoping that technology used to study the effects of space travel on the brain will help explain his mental capabilities.
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By MATTHEW FORDAHL    SAN JOSE, Calif.  -- A $239 million satellite toppled to a factory floor last year because nobody bothered to check that it was secure before moving it, according to a NASA investigation board's report on the mishap...
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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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A shocked NASA said on Wednesday it would review its screening process for mental and medical problems after astronaut Lisa Nowak's arrest on charges she tried to kill a romantic rival for another astronaut.
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The agency is trying to figure out how an embarrassing error eluded the review process, apparently resulting in the crash of the Genesis space capsule in Utah last month.
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Former Boeing engineer held on suspicion of stealing space programme secrets for China
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ORLANDO, Florida  - Former NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak, charged over an alleged attack on a romantic rival, testified on Friday that police searched her car without her consent as she sought to have some evidence thrown out.
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NASA said on Wednesday it "made a mistake" in its calculations about a tear in space shuttle Atlantis' heat protection, but that it should not prevent the ship's safe return to earth.