According to Yahoo! News NASA chief Charles Bolden told senators that their main GOAL is to actually send a person/s to Mars. This happened during the heated budget hearing Wednesday. “Mars is what I believe to be the ultimate destination for human exploration in our solar system,” Bolden told the Senate’s Commerce, Science and Transportation [...]
After a postponement because of the weather, the space shuttle Endeavour finally launched into space today to begin NASA’s last big space station construction mission. The launch was supposed to happen early Sunday but the weather kept the shuttle from launching. Gladly, weather was OK for today and launch director Mike Leinback gave the go-ahead [...]
The Obama Administration today unveiled its new budget for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and people were surprised. The budget dumps the backward-looking program and moves towards a brand-new one that will focus primarily on developing new space technologies and the exploration of the solar system. The new budget which is pending approval [...]