Col. Eileen Collins was the first woman to pilot and command a NASA space shuttle. Collins commanded the first flight after the 2003 Columbia tragedy, which also experienced a foam-shedding issue.

NASA scales back most operations due to a US government funding deadlock. This action impacts many ongoing projects. Essential tasks like monitoring astronauts on the ISS continue. However, research ...

Former television host Bill Nye “The Science Guy” visited Capitol Hill on Monday to advocate against President Trump’s budget for NASA. He’s the CEO of the Planetary Society, a non-profit space ...

A U.S. government shutdown has furloughed over 15,000 nonessential NASA employees. Essential operations, including support for the International Space Station and Artemis moon missions, will continue.

A special exemption allowed a NASA-funded weather balloon to launch as planned Oct. 1, despite the ongoing government shutdown that began that day. But news about the balloon, and an exoplanet-hunting ...

For decades, NASA has increasingly leaned on corporate contractors to develop the spacecraft it uses to explore the solar system. Triumphs have included SpaceX’s Dragon vehicles, which can now ...

Approximately 550 employees of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) will be laid off, according to an announcement made on the agency's website on Monday (Oct. 13). The news comes in the midst of an ...

Oct 14 - Jared Isaacman, the private astronaut and Elon Musk ally who was removed from consideration to lead NASA earlier this year, met with Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy last week as a ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Citing the proposed budget cuts by the Trump administration, NASA announced on Friday that after the Artemis III mission — where Americans will return to the moon — the rocket ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will lay off about 550 workers, the California research lab said, in a restructuring move that its director told employees was not related to the ongoing government ...

The 11% staffing cut is the fourth round of layoffs at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory since January 2024. And we’re supposed to beat China back to the Moon? Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes ...

NASA's famed Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena laid off more than 500 employees on Tuesday, Oct. 14. The job cuts come as part of the institution's efforts to "best position JPL going forward" as ...