National Aeronautics and Space Administration News

The space shuttle Atlantis is seen shortly after the rotating service structure was rolled back at launch pad 39A at the Nasa Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida in this picture taken on July 7, 2011.

Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability - Highlight on Page 191 In 2006, a researcher at the University of Montana, in a study based on satellite data collected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, determined that the nation's largest irrigated crop is cultivated grass , ... (more)

The International Space Station crew is boldly going where no one has gone before--to see the new "Star Trek" film.

A Chinese research scientist suspected of spying on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration --- and pulled from a plane in March as he was about to depart for China -- is set to plead to a misdemeanor charge of violating agency computer rules.

It's where the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions roared into the sky. It's where the space shuttle zoomed up through the atmosphere for countless orbits and visits to the International Space Station.

PHOTO COURTESY OF NASA/AMES/JP-CALTECH The Kepler mission-which was launched in 2009-has discovered a system of planets, three of which may be life-sustaining. Researchers involved in the mission now believe there are many more habitable planets in space, some of which may support other life forms.

When Florida's U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson announced in early April that he wanted to "lasso" an asteroid, he wasn't joking.

In Innovative Smart Grid Technologies , 2013 IEEE PES , pp. 1-6, doi:10.1109/isgt.2013.6497804 Technology Readiness Levels originated as a way for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to monitor the development of systems being readied for space.

It's where the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions into orbit and to the moon launched from.