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NASA wins White House approval to extend life of space station

June 18, 2018 at 10:09 a.m.

WASHINGTON — The world's most expensive science project — the $100-billion-plus International Space Station — is poised to get four more years in orbit. According to documents obtained by the...

In this Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021 photo made available by NASA, the core stage for the first flight of NASA's Space Launch System rocket undergoes a hot fire test at NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Miss. All four core-stage engines fired for barely a minute, rather than the intended eight minutes. On Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021, NASA blamed the automatic shutdown on the strict test limits. (Robert Markowitz/NASA via AP)

NASA unveils next rocket: Hybrid shuttle to fly in 2017

August 22, 2019 at 8:09 p.m.

WASHINGTON — NASA made official on Wednesday its next vision for space travel by unveiling plans for a massive rocket it hopes could blast astronauts to an asteroid by 2025...

Shuttle Atlantis on display at Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday, April 12, before NASA's announcement.

Space-shuttle retirement homes: Cape Canaveral, New York, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.

August 22, 2019 at 7:57 p.m.

CAPE CANAVERAL — When space shuttle Atlantis returns from its final mission in July, it will come home to stay at Kennedy Space Center. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced Tuesday...

25 years after Challenger disaster: NASA officials, others reflect

August 22, 2019 at 7:51 p.m.

WASHINGTON — Two days before Challenger made its final, fateful flight, Carl McNair spoke to his brother Ron McNair on the telephone. It was mostly small talk: Super Bowl XX...

Last night flight takes off

August 22, 2021 at 8:06 p.m.

Space shuttle Endeavour brought an early dawn to Kennedy Space Center on Monday, punching its way through cloudy skies to close the curtain on nighttime shuttle launches and kick off...

Space shuttle Endeavour lights up the night sky in successful launch

August 22, 2019 at 7:30 p.m.

CAPE CANAVERAL -- Space shuttle Endeavour brought an early dawn to Kennedy Space Center this morning, punching its way through cloudy skies to close the curtain on night-time shuttle launches...

Orlando Evening Star front page from July 24, 1969 with splashdown of Apollo 11, the return of man's first trip to the moon.

Four decades ago we landed on the moon — will we go further?

August 22, 2019 at 7:28 p.m.

Two months ago, former NASA astronaut Scott Parazynski ascended Mount Everest, carrying a lunar rock brought back by the Apollo 11 mission that landed on the moon 40 years ago...

NASA’s out-of-this-world costs draw new scrutiny

August 21, 2021 at 11:22 p.m.

Most nights it's possible to look skyward with a pair of cheap binoculars and see a $100,000 mistake circling the Earth. The glowing object -- an orbiting NASA tool bag...

Space legend Aldrin says moon mission plan off course

August 21, 2021 at 10:25 p.m.

Four years after President George W. Bush announced his vision to send astronauts back to the moon and then on to Mars, legendary astronaut Buzz Aldrin is leading an effort...

President comes face to face with devastation

January 30, 2019 at 11:54 a.m.

President Bush on Wednesday personally inspected the effects of a terrorist attack that killed hundreds of people at the Pentagon but according to his aides was aimed at him. "I...

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