Sources: Space
NASA says that its DART spacecraft has successfully altered the orbit of the 520 ft asteroid Dimorphos by around 32 minutes in a demonstration of asteroid impact avoidance. 2022-10-11
NASA says it has received the first message from interstellar space from its "Voyager" 2 spacecraft. 2019-11-4
NASA announces that the "Kepler" spacecraft has expended all its fuel and will be retired after nearly 10 years of service, having found more than 2,600 exoplanets. 2018-10-30
Global temperatures rose to the hottest level on record for 2016 for a third successive record according to NASA and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 2017-01-18
NASA awards Boeing a commercial contract to build and fly the next passenger spacecraft, the CST-100. [http:--www.news24.com-fin24-Companies-Industrial-Boeing-aims-for-human-spaceflight-20150528 (Fin24)]date=August 2019 2015-05-28
An unmanned Antares rocket carrying NASA's Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station explodes seconds after taking off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in the U.S. state of Virginia. The loss includes five thousand pounds of cargo. 2014-10-28
Two NASA astronauts at the International Space Station begin a series of spacewalks to replace a faulty ammonia coolant pump. 2013-12-21
NASA Curiosity Mars rover begins its mission to its destination and drives to Mount Sharp. 2013-07-8
NASA launches the robotic Mars Science Laboratory, the largest rover yet sent to Mars, with the aim of finding evidence for past or present life on Mars. 2011-11-26
NASA delays the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-133, its final mission, due to a circuitry glitch. 2010-11-2