Jul 11 Watch As Shuttle Retires, What's NASA's New Mission? After 30 years and millions of miles traveled, the 135th and final mission of NASA's space shuttle program blasted off Friday. Ray Suarez discusses the post-shuttle era of space exploration and NASA's future purpose with former astronaut Mae Jemison, former… Continue watching
Jul 08 Watch NASA's Shuttle Era Winds Down With Bittersweet Moments, Grocery Run Despite troublesome weather, space shuttle Atlantis blasted into orbit for the final time Friday with a four-person crew and a payload of food for the International Space Station. Judy Woodruff and science correspondent Miles O'Brien discuss this final mission, the… Continue watching
Jul 08 Watch Atlantis Launches on Historic Mission The space shuttle Atlantis lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center for the final mission of the 30-year-old program Friday morning. 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
Jul 07 Watch Miles O'Brien on the Last Shuttle Launch Hari talks to Miles O'Brien about the space shuttle program, on the eve of its retirement. Continue watching
Jun 27 On Its Final Mission, Atlantis to Help Ready NASA for Post-Shuttle Era Space shuttle Atlantis will haul supplies and a robotic experiment to the International Space Station for its final flight. Continue reading
Jun 16 What Is a Black Hole, and How Are They Formed? As new findings are released on the most ancient black holes ever detected, we break down the basics. Continue reading
Jun 03 Could studying seawater saltiness be key to decoding the climate puzzle? By Jenny Marder A satellite slated to launch into space next week will study the saltiness of the oceans, and, scientists hope, provide a better grasp of extreme weather events. Continue reading
May 19 Watch Mark Kelly Followed Wife Giffords' Latest Surgery From Space NASA's space shuttle Endeavour launched Monday on a 16-day mission to the International Space Station. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien posed crowdsourced questions to the commander and crew early Thursday in a collaboration with Google and YouTube. Here is an excerpt. Continue watching
May 19 Watch You Talk to Endeavour: Shuttle Crew on Giffords, Tile Damage, Trips to Mars Google, YouTube and the PBS NewsHour took you aboard space shuttle Endeavour and the International Space Station for a live interview with Commander Mark Kelly and crew. Watch the full interview here. Continue watching