President Barack Obama on Saturday named former shuttle commander Charles Bolden to lead NASA at a critical time for the space agency. The White House has ordered a complete outside review of NASA’s ...

HOUSTON -- Jobs cuts expected in the wake of the elimination of the Constellation space program might not go as deep for the Johnson Space Center community as initially feared. President Barack Obama ...

Humans may travel to Mars sooner than we thought - maybe even within the next 20 years. President Barack Obama announced Tuesday that the U.S. government is partnering with commercial companies to ...

President Barack Obama may be the largest obstacle facing NASA’s plan to land humans on Mars in the next 15 years. The Obama administration stymied two separate projects initiated during the Bush ...

The Obama Administration has recommended commercial ventures to ferry astronauts back and forth between Earth and low-Earth orbit. Can it work? Will it succeed? What if this course of action fails?

Not all the outrage on Capitol Hill these days is directed at the financial industry. Three senators have written President Barack Obama, asking for the removal of NASA Inspector General (IG) Robert ...

John McCain celebrated NASA’s 50th anniversary today and blasted his opponent’s plan to scale back space funding in favor of education, implying Obama’s plan would abandon NASA at a critical juncture, ...

I understand there's a special Mohawk Guy that's working on the mission. (Laughter.) He's been one of the many stars of the show last Sunday night. And I, in the past, thought about getting a Mohawk ...

Sen. Barack Obama has detailed a comprehensive space plan that includes $2 billion in new funding to reinvigorate NASA and a promise to make space exploration and science a significantly higher ...

This article is from the archive of our partner . No He Isn't, countered Neil Armstrong in an open letter (covered by the Wire here): "For The United States, the leading space faring nation for nearly ...