Oct 09 Watch Small Crash on Moon Could Have Big Scientific Impact Scientists hope crashing a probe into the moon will shed light on whether there is much water there. Continue watching
Oct 09 Moon Explosion Could Yield Water for Humans A NASA spacecraft crashed into the Moon on Friday morning, on purpose, in a bid to discover ice hidden below the lunar surface. Continue reading
Aug 14 With Eyes on Moon and Mars, Space Exploration Goes Under Review According to a presidential review panel, the U.S. plan to return astronauts to the moon by 2020 will not happen without a big boost in NASA's budget. Continue reading
Aug 14 Watch Budget Woes Expected to Ground Some Space Missions U.S. budget constraints threaten to ground some of NASA's manned space missions. Judy Woodruff looks at the space program and its future prospects. Continue watching
Jul 20 Watch Moon Landing Anniversary Renews Debate on Spaceflight As the country celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, NASA and the Obama administration are weighing the debate over sending more astronauts into space, or to shift more toward the use of robots. Ray Suarez reports. Continue watching
Jul 20 ‘We Sent Music and Laughter There’: Man and the Moon, 40 Years On Now re-released by the Criterion Collection, the new DVD version of "For All Mankind" is far superior to the original grainy images most watched for the first time on their TVs. Continue reading
Jun 19 Watch NASA Launch Begins Effort to Return Man to the Moon NASA launched two satellites to the moon last week, the first step toward its goal of returning a human to the lunar surface. At the start of this new effort, though, a debate has been ignited at the space agency… Continue watching
Jun 18 Watch Other News: Senate Passes $106 Billion War Funding Bill In other news, the U.S. Senate approved a $106 war funding bill, and a Pakistani intelligence official said a U.S. drone attack killed 13 people at a Taliban encampment. Continue watching
May 21 Five Years Later, Mars Rovers Continue to Make Discoveries By PBS News Hour More than four years after its expected demise, the Mars rover Opportunity continues to send back valuable data as it crawls across the planet's surface. Continue reading
May 18 Astronauts Complete Final Spacewalk of Hubble Repair Mission By PBS News Hour The fifth and final spacewalk of NASA's final Hubble repair mission went smoothly Monday, and ended with astronauts John Grunfeld and Andrew Feustel completing all of the necessary repairs on the telescope. Continue reading