Oct 05 Inside the Supreme Court: Marcia Coyle on NASA Background Checks Case By Elizabeth Summers Courtroom sketch courtesy William Hennessy How much personal information should a job applicant have to give up to a prospective employer? That's the question the Supreme Court wrestled with Tuesday as it heard arguments in the privacy case… Continue reading
Jun 03 Mars500 Project Will Test Prospects for Human Travel to the Red Planet By Lauren Knapp On Thursday morning, six astronauts will be locked in a 550 cubic-meter windowless complex in Moscow. The mission: to simulate the experience of a real trip to Mars and back. The "voyage" will take 520 days, roughly 12 months longer… Continue reading
May 26 Atlantis Caps Final Mission with Permanent Resting Place Still TBD By Larisa Epatko The space shuttle Atlantis glided to a landing with six astronauts aboard at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, capping the orbiter's 25-year career in space. Continue reading
Apr 15 Space Watchers Critique President Obama’s Proposal for NASA’s Future President Obama traveled to Florida's "Space Coast" Thursday to sell his plan for a new direction for NASA. The president's proposal would end the return-to-the-moon Constellation program begun under President Bush, a program many critics say… Continue reading
Mar 29 NewsHour Plus ‘This Week In Space’ Talk Mars and Your Ticket to the Stars By Chris Amico, Miles O'Brien Recent developments have moved us a bit closer to "space (flight) for the rest of us," Miles O'Brien of 'This Week In Space' tells us in his first visit to NewsHour Plus. O'Brien catches us up on… Continue reading
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
Oct 07 New Saturn Ring Could Hold a Billion Earths A team of scientists have discovered a new ring around the planet Saturn, already famous for its many rings, that is so large that it has the volume equivalent to one billion Earths. Continue reading