After 200 days of travel and more than 460 million kilometers (about 285 million miles) logged on its odometer, NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft will fire its main engine for the first and only ...

Auditorium at NASA Headquarters, 300 E St. SW, Washington, DC, and will be carried live on NASA Television with two-way question-and-answer capability for reporters covering the event from ...

(CNN) --NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin is resigning. "When I told my grandson that I would have more time for him, he squealed with joy," said Goldin in a telephone conversation with CNN space ...

In October 2001, nuclear engineers at NASA's Glenn Research Center (GRC) in Cleveland, Ohio, led by Stanley K. Borowski, Advanced Concepts Manager in GRC's Space Transportation Project Office, ...

For years, Ed Hudgins was ignored, rebuffed and even mocked for suggesting ideas such as selling off NASA's space shuttle and space station. But after the Bush administration decided to move in that ...

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This is not John Glenn's NASA. His NASA wrestled with the specter of Sputnik, the little satellite that launched the Soviet Union into the space race and heightened Cold War tensions. Today's NASA is ...

Satellite data show the area of this year’s Antarctic ozone hole peaked at about 26 million square kilometers — roughly the size of North America — making the hole similar in size to those of the past ...

NASA's return to Mars began April 7, 2001 as the 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft roared into space onboard a Delta II launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. April 7, 2001 -- NASA's ...

launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. About 53 minutes later, at 11:55 a.m. Eastern time, flight controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory received the first signal from the ...