When NASA’s Space Shuttle program ended in 2011, few thought it would take more than eight years for U.S. astronauts to launch back into orbit from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. But as VOA’s Kane Farabaugh reports, hopes ride high on a new “space race” of privately developed launch systems ushering in a new era of U.S. space exploration
NASA is preparing to send a new rover to Mars for a human exploration mission of the Red Planet
The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing celebrated the crowning achievement in crewed space flight, but also reminded the public the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, is not currently sending astronauts into space from the U.S
In the race to the moon in the 1960s, the development of the large rockets that could thrust the spacecraft beyond Earth’s atmosphere became a critical element in the success of the Apollo program. The place where the Saturn V rocket was developed — Huntsville, Alabama
On July 20, 1969, American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin set foot on the lunar surface – the first men on the moon. The U.S. space agency, NASA, is celebrating the 50th anniversary of this historic event in style
The sea ice around Antarctica has plunged from a record high to a record low in just three years according to a new report released this week by the U.S, space agency NASA
Data that sheds light on those circumstances is gathered by a small electronic device called “ThinSat” designed to orbit the Earth. It is developed not by high-paid engineers and software programmers, but by Chicago-area students like Guerra
Scientists say if all of Greenland’s vast ice sheet were to melt, global sea levels would rise by 7 meters (23 feet) , flooding most coastal developments around the world
This year marks the 50th anniversary of mankind’s first steps on the moon, so it is fitting there are a number of exciting projects pushing us back into space