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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NASAÂs administrator, Michael D. Griffin, says the current period of space exploration will come to be seen as a mistake.
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A NASA experiment that could help shape the future of space exploration as part of a new generation of potentially life-saving space crafts has launched
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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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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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NASA officials say the space agency is capable of finding nearly all the asteroids that might pose a devastating hit to Earth, but there isn't enough money to pay for the task so it won't get done.
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While space enthusiasts have focused on NASA's preparations for the next shuttle launching and its award of a huge contract to develop the next spaceship for human flight, a battle has erupted outside the limelight between the agency's administrator and some of his top scientific advisers.
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The decision on how to fix the aging Hubble Space Telescope -- or whether to do it at all -- could hinge on how much it costs and which part of NASA pays for the repair, aeronautics experts said on Wednesday.
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The race to collect the Ansari X Prize has all the makings of a good television reality show. But the competition to win the $10 million prize is also drumming up renewed interest in space flight at a time
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It has the technology to land men on the moon and send probes into the darkest reaches of space. But Nasa&#39;s newest project has more in common with school science lessons than Star Wars.
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When it comes to space exploration, where scientists often measure their needs in milli-this and micro-that, Deep Impact, as its name suggests, has all the subtlety of a punch in the mouth.
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Too many tax dollars at stake NASA is under increasing pressure from government auditors to rein in its budget for getting astronauts back to the moon.â¦
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By Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Dec. 7--WITH MAJOR ADVANCES in robotic technology in recent years, NASA has scored many significant triumphs with uncrewed missions to Mars, Saturn and beyond as well as in Earth orbit.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The departure of NASA&#39;s boss comes at a challenging time as the space agency struggles to ditch the mentality that lost Columbia and get its remaining shuttles flying again, while aiming for the moon and Mars.
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NASA's thermal-imaging sensor helps fight the flames.
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Four years after President Bush called for Americans to return to the moon and then voyage on to Mars, NASA is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to design, build and test the spacecraft that would make it possible.
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The reaction to NASA's still-secret air safety survey.