Nov 16 Watch Congress Honors 4 Astronauts With Highest Civilian Honor Four astronauts were awarded the nation's highest civilian honor on Wednesday: the Congressional Gold Medal. Ray Suarez reports. Continue watching
Jul 07 Watch Mock Mission to Mars Tests Psychological Rigors of Long-Distance Space Travel Mock Mission to Mars Tests Rigors of Long-Distance Space Travel… Continue watching
Oct 13 Watch ScienceNow Looks at Rescuing the Hubble The NewsHour airs an excerpt from a NOVA ScienceNow report on efforts to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. Continue watching
Aug 13 Astronauts Install Gyroscope on Space Station; Engineers Inspect Tile Gash By PBS News Hour Two astronauts performed a spacewalk Monday to replace one of the International Space Station's gyroscopes, as engineers on Earth studied a 3-inch tear on the shuttle's underbelly left by a wayward piece of foam during liftoff. Continue reading
Aug 07 Watch Shuttle Endeavour Carries Teacher into Space Teacher Barbara Morgan joins the Endeavour crew for a planned Wednesday launch. She was selected as the backup candidate to Christa McAuliffe in the ill-fated 1986 Challenger mission. Idaho Public Television reports on her story. Continue watching
Jun 19 Shuttle Undocks from Space Station After Construction, Computer Glitch By PBS News Hour The space shuttle Atlantis moved away from the International Space Station Tuesday after a nearly 10-day stay during which astronauts installed a truss and pair of solar arrays, and experienced a temporary computer meltdown. Continue reading
Dec 05 NASA Aims for Permanent Base on Moon by 2024 By PBS News Hour Two years after President Bush proposed to return astronauts to the moon, NASA announced plans Monday for manned trips there by 2020 and the construction of a permanent base, most likely near the Shackleton crater on the moon's south pole,… Continue reading
Oct 31 Watch NASA Announces Repair Plans for Aging Hubble Telescope NASA announced Tuesday that it would send a final repair mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, tentatively in 2008, to extend the life of the orbiting observatory to at least 2013. Hubble's senior project scientist discusses the history and future… Continue watching
Sep 01 Lockheed Wins Contract for NASA Exploration Spacecraft By PBS News Hour NASA has awarded a multibillion dollar contract to Lockheed Martin to build a manned spacecraft to replace the retiring space shuttle fleet and ferry astronauts to the moon and possibly Mars. Continue reading
Jul 17 Space Shuttle Discovery Touches Down After 13-Day Mission By PBS News Hour Space shuttle Discovery and a crew of six safely landed at Kennedy Space Center in Florida Monday morning after a smooth 13-day mission to the International Space Station. Continue reading