While NASA just recently ended its manned space program, the national space organization is gearing up to launch a new unmanned spacecraft on Friday. The probe, which cost over a billion dollars, has been designed to explore Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system. The spacecraft, powered by nearly 20,000 photovoltaic cells, is expected to reach the gas giant some time in 2016. Scientists at... 

By Beth Owens Editing by Sean Hutch Debris from Columbia Discovered in Nacogdoches A recent drought that has plagued the Texas farmlands has not only turned many lakes into small areas of mud puddles, but has also brought to light a sad reminder of the Columbia tragedy back in 2003. A piece of the shuttle was located in East Texas in Nacogdoches, and appears to be the tank that provides water and... 

Commander Mark Kelly, husband of Senator Gabrielle Gifford who was wounded in the January 8th shooting spree in Tucson Arizona, has announced his intentions to retire from both NASA and the U.S. Navy as of October 1st of this year. Kelly an astronaut and U.S. Navy Captain has flown four shuttle missions for NASA, including the final mission for the shuttle Endeavor. Kelly joined NASA as an astronaut... 

Endeavour Makes Successful Launch On Last Mission NASA successfully launched its next to last shuttle flight today with the launch of Endeavour from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The shuttle is heading for the International Space Station on its farewell flight carrying a crew of six, with Mark Kelly in command. Kelly, a veteran of the space program, is the husband of U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords... 

NASA has reason to celebrate as space shuttle Endeavor lifts off for its last flight. Mike Kelly, the crew leader, along with 5 other astronauts lifted off on Endeavor’s last space flight. Kelly is the husband to Rep. Gabrielle Gifford. Gifford was the Congresswomen that was shot in the head in January during the mass shooting in Tucson. Gifford attending the lift off. Despite the lift threatening... 

NASA plans to retire the space shuttle program earlier this year. The first shuttle, Columbia made its first flight in 1981. The Enterprise, designed to test part of the concept behind the design of the shuttle made its first and only flight in the late 1970s. The venerable shuttle has had a 30-year plus history. NASA plans to retire the shuttle by the end of this year. At the moment, the government... 

The NASA Space Shuttle program is getting ready to come to an end this year and one company that looks to capitalize on that is SpaceX. NASA will still need transportation to the International Space Station and what better way to do that than with the World’s Most Powerful Rocket. SpaceX is one of several companies that NASA is building contracts with for future missions to the ISS. SpaceX... 

With NASA getting ready to shut down its fleet of challenger space ships, a local millionaire is doing his part to ensure that space exploration continues to strive, even in a questionable economy. Space Exploration Technologies Corp, or SpaceX has just finished showing off the worlds most powerful rocket. The new Falcon 9 rocket was launched successfully and is expected to be fully operational for... 

A paper published on Friday in the Journal of Cosmology claims that NASA discovered microscopic evidence of fossilized structures that may be remains of extraterrestrial bacteria or what is being termed “alien bacteria.” The report was written by Dr. Richard B. Hoover, an astrobiologist for NASA. The report provides details of fossilized remains found in meteorites that appear to be remains... 

A NASA astrobiologist published a paper this past Friday in the Journal of Cosmology stating that he has discovered fossilized remains of extraterrestrial microorganisms inside of a meteorite. Dr. Richard B. Hover, under sterile conditions, split open several meteorites and studied them with an electron microscope. What he found was evidence of several fossils of bacteria that were similar to that...