NASA is returning to the moon to build a sustainable long term human presence. The Constellation Program is building the Ares rockets and Orion crew capsule.
NASA is returning to the moon to build a sustainable long term human presence. The Constellation Program is building the Ares rockets and Orion crew capsule.
A pair of missions will map the lunar surface and search for water at the south pole.
Josh Figuered, a robotics engineer at Johnson Space Center, is working on the next vehicle that astronauts may drive on the moon.
› Read profile and view multimediaThe Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter was loaded on a truck February 11 to begin its two-day journey to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
A hundred trucks carried in 1,600 tons of concrete. And that was just enough for the foundation of one of the new facilities NASA is building to test Orion.
An aspiring group of students at UA Huntsville have the childhood dreams of becoming rocket scientists. NASA's Constellation University Institutes Project is giving them the opportunity to make their dreams a reality.
NASA’s Constellation Program took another giant step forward as representatives helped mark the completion of renovations to the historic Operations and Checkout Building at Kennedy Space Center on Jan. 26.
02.23.09 - NASA, in cooperation with local technology firms, is sponsoring the first-ever District of Columbia regional high school robotics competition.
02.20.09 - The last newly manufactured section of the Ares I-X test rocket arrived at the Assembly and Refurbishment Facility of NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Friday.
02.20.09 - NASA and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Space Enterprise Council will hold a workshop on lunar surface system concepts to support human and robotic
01.21.09 - The Mars Exploration Rovers (MER), Spirit and Opportunity, continue to provide NASA with valuable insight about the planet Mars. Although the rovers had a life expectancy of 90 days, they have continued science operations on the Red Planet for five years.
12.11.08 - MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., -- The X PRIZE Foundation will reveal the identities of a “Mystery Team” competing for the $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE at NASA’s Ames Research Center on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008.