Dr. Sally Ride, American’s first female astronaut, will be honored posthumously with the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House later this year, President Obama announced Monday.   The announcement coincided with a tribute to Ride on Monday night at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. Ride, who [...]

Follow two childhood friends from the moment Curiosity’s landing on Mars captures their imaginations to the time not so far away when they become the first humans to walk on the red planet.

Three NASA shuttle-era astronauts, two of them women, were inducted into the U. S. Astronaut Hall of Fame on Saturday. Those honored in ceremonies at the Hall, close to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., included Eileen Collins, the first woman to pilot and command a shuttle mission; Curt Brown, who served as [...]

  NASA and Lockheed Martin, the space agency’s aerospace company partner in the development of the Orion crew vehicle, asked students in kindergarten through high school on Monday to assist them in the development of critical radiation shielding for the four person spacecraft that will one day start human explorers on missions to asteroids, Mars [...]

      NASA’s annual Day of Remembrance, scheduled for Friday, Feb. 1,  will pay tribute to astronauts from three U.  S. missions who lost their lives while pursuing the exploration of space. A wreath laying ceremony led by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver is scheduled for the Arlington National [...]