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President Obama said NASA suffers from "drift," adding that NASA must have "a new mission that is appropriate for the 21st century," the Orlando Sentinel reported. He also will appoint...

U.S. Intelligence Unsure Whether Iran Already Bought Nuclear Bomb From Another Nation: Witnesses U.S. Intel Experts Say Iran Wields Technological Know-How To Build Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Iran is moving in...

GREENBELT, Md. — Even before President Obama releases his detailed federal government budget plan for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2009, leaders of NASA centers across the nation are...

GREENBELT, Md. – Any changes that President Obama may make in the U.S. space program should be made swiftly, to reduce anxiety and uncertainty caused by rumors churning throughout industry,...

Research on the International Space Station (ISS) has discovered ways to lessen virulence of a common food poisoning disease organism, NASA announced. The organism that can cause food poisoning in...

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is disbanding the Space Enterprise Council that it fostered more than eight years ago. No public press release announcement of the switch was made by...

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, conducted a full mission duration firing of its new Merlin Vacuum engine, the company announced. That test, at the SpaceX Test Facility in McGregor,...

Updated — March 13, 2009 – 9:45 a.m. EDT Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2009 Launches Date: * Mission: STS-119 Launch Vehicle:...

The Navy gave Raytheon Co. [RTN] a $106.5 million contract change to procure 280 Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) unitary Air-to-Ground (AGM)-154C-1s, with a moving target/surface warfare capability. That contract also...

NASA awarded a contract worth up to $58 million for administrative support services at Johnson Space Center in Houston. The deal went to REDE/Critique NSS, Joint Venture, of New Orleans....