Grand Valley State University students will travel to Houston to work with NASA in a zero-gravity environment on a tool being designed for a mission to Mars.
Here is an iconic photo taken 43 years ago that no man had seen before. It was on December 8, in 1972 that astronauts on the Apollo 17 spacecraft took a famous photograph of Earth, a photo that came to be known as "The Blue Marble." Ph...
NASA's doing some crazy things this month. First, it launched its first spacecraft in three years since the space shuttle. Now, the U.S. space agency has awakened its New Horizons spacecraft for an encounter with Pluto -- which is still a planet to me.
NASA reached a major milestone Friday as the Orion spacecraft completed its first voyage to space, traveling farther than any spacecraft designed for astronauts has been in more than 40 years. Bottom line: NASA's back in the spaceflight game for the first time since the space shuttle program end…
For all the space junkies out there: The first flight test of Orion, NASA's next-generation spacecraft capable of sending astronauts on future missions to an asteroid and the journey to Mars, has been rescheduled.
NASA Flight Engineers Rick Mastracchio and Mike Hopkins are working outside the orbiting International Space Station today (Dec. 21) to fix a bad pump. They are doing the first in a series of spacewalks to replace a degraded ammonia pump module with one of the station's two external cooling loop…
The Blandford Environmental Education Program has a right to be proud of its many accomplishments. The past 40 years have seen success after success. Our news partner, WZZM TV13 reports one of those successes is an alumnus of the Blandford Environmental Education Program who now works with NASA…
This is really a neat video because we always have a lot of questions regarding space.....living in space. You know, not questions about performing the work-tasks the astronauts have to do, but questions about normal human needs...personal hygiene.
Some kids have all the luck. It's not everyday where you get to learn about space, and travel and whats it's like to leave this stratosphere from the guys and girls who actually experiment with it and do it. Turn all of that into a do-good movie and you have A Smile As Big As T…