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In 1995, NASA retired KAO and shifted focus to its successor-the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). SOFIA, a modified Boeing 747SP formerly operated by Pan Am and United ...
WASHINGTON — NASA is terminating $420 million in contracts the agency says are redundant or “misaligned” with its core priorities, but has provided few details about what is being cut.
Those are words that NASA has been resisting for months. It made for an awkward situation in a post-splashdown press conference, when NASA administrators insisted they could have brought Butch ...
NASA has outlined how it will respond to President Donald Trump’s order that federal agencies eliminate “waste, bloat, and insularity” — but it’s not yet clear just how sweeping the chan ...
NASA has called off a planned cargo mission to the International Space Station (ISS) due to a damaged spacecraft. The spacecraft is a robotic Cygnus freighter, built by the Virginia-based company ...
Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore do not get overtime for their unexpectedly long stay on the International Space Station, according to NASA rules. But they do get $5 a day for “incidentals.” ...
Despite Boeing Starliner's last crewed mission extending from eight days to over nine months due to capsule issues, NASA is examining what future launches for the aerospace giant will look like.
NASA terminated $420 million in “unneeded contracts,” according to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an entity established by executive order to slash costs across the federal ...
Three weeks ago, NASA revealed that a shipping container protecting a Cygnus spacecraft sustained "damage" while traveling to the launch site in Florida. Built by Northrop Grumman, Cygnus is one ...
In the following weeks, Boeing and NASA conducted a series of tests both in space and on the ground, using a Starliner replica, to try and fix the problems the aircraft faced. Even as late as ...