Wielding a Cost-Cutting Ax, and Often, at NASA
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S. Alan Stern, the director of space science at NASA, is ushering in a new era of saying no.
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Even as NASA gears up for the space shuttle&#39;s return to flight next year, officials at the space agency are quietly studying the possibility of cutting back its number of missions
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A well-researched study by the National Academy of Sciences makes a persuasive case for refurbishing the Hubble Space Telescope. NASA, which is reluctant to take this mission, should rethink its position.
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By Alice Rawsthorn One glance at the model rockets, space magazines and NASA knickknacks strewn across Marc Newson's desk tells you that he is a space freak.
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Two years ago, scientists at the NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field were stunned when the Columbia space shuttle came apart as it returned to Earth.
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When Sean O'Keefe was sworn in as NASA administrator  Dec. 21, 2001, at the top of his agenda was to bring fiscal discipline to a  space agency that had recently allowed a &#36;5 billion surprise to swamp its key  program, an international space station already more than a decade behind  schedule.
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WASHINGTON - A U.S. Senate panel has recommended providing $17.45 billion for NASA next year, or about $150 million more than the White House requested.
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GOLDEN, COLORADO -- Any high hopes of sustaining expeditions on the Moon, Mars or beyond will depend on getting "down and dirty" on those worlds -- in the form of using on-the-spot resources.
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Until recently, Adam Deutch, a junior business major at the University of Arizona, wouldn&#39;t have bothered to pick up a newspaper story about space exploration.
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The resignation Monday of NASA Administrator Sean  O'Keefe comes at a time when the agency has a budgetary window of opportunity to  flex its space exploration muscle, but must still deal with an agenda of thorny  issues.
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Hurricanes Charley, Frances and Ivan have cost NASA a least a week&#39;s worth of work and upset its tight schedule for resuming shuttle flights, throwing into doubt the
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NASA knows Columbia sustained damage on liftoff. But engineers' concerns get swept aside by mission control, at the cost of seven lives. Compiled by Tony Long.
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In the quest for a cheaper route to space, astronauts competing for the X Prize are willing to take risks. But some wonder if blasting off in an untested rocket ship suspended from a giant balloon is taking things too far. By Dan Brekke.
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Trying to save the famed Hubble Space Telescope (news - web sites) with a robot would cost $2 billion with just a 50-50 chance of success, an aerospace
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It may seem, from a distance, just one small step. But in a few months, it should prove to have been a giant leap. NASA plans today to roll out from an assembly facility near New Orleans a redesigned fuel
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-- NASA's chief is urging his Hubble Space Telescope team to press ahead with plans for a robotic repair mission to the aging observatory, saying, "Let's go save the Hubble."    Administrator Sean O'Keefe says he will ask Congress for money to accomplish the job. He estimates it will take about $1 billion to $1.6 billion to develop and launch a robot to make the needed upgrades to keep the popular telescope running and to get it out of orbit once its work is through...
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The president's proposed $2.9 trillion spending plan includes a nice boost for the space program, but cuts environmental protection. Maybe we can move to Mars. Luke O'Brien reports from Washington.