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NASA successfully launches its Psyche space probe from Kennedy Space Center. The spacecraft will explore the M-type asteroid 16 Psyche, a suspected core of a protoplanet in the asteroid belt.
2023-10-13

NASA launches the Artemis 1 mission. It is the first flight of the Space Launch System.
2022-11-16

A new plane that would fly from London to New York City in three hours has just received crucial funding. The aircraft, officially named Quiet Supersonic Transport (QueSST) and dubbed the "Son of Concorde", was proposed by NASA and has just been given the go-ahead by US officials. QueSST could make its maiden voyage in 2021 if all goes according to plan. If so, it will halve the current travel time between London and New York City.
2018-02-13

NASA confirms that Scott Tilley, a Canadian amateur astronomer and satellite tracker, has rediscovered NASA's IMAGE (Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration) satellite while he was searching for the U.S. government's classified Zuma satellite. NASA engineers will try to analyze the data from the spacecraft to learn more about the state of the spacecraft.
2018-02-1

U.S. Congress passes a bill that mandates NASA send humans to Mars by 2033.
2017-03-8

The United Launch Alliance successfully launches NASA's OSIRIS-REx from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41 in Florida. The mission is to study asteroid 101955 Bennu and in 2023 to return a sample to Earth for detailed analysis. If successful, OSIRIS-REx will be the first U.S. spacecraft to return samples from an asteroid.
2016-09-8

NASA's "Juno" spacecraft reaches Jupiter and enters into its orbit after a five-year flight.
2016-07-5

New data from the NASA space probe MESSENGER indicate that Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, almost surely has water ice buried beneath the surface at its north pole.
2012-11-29

NASA astronauts on board "Atlantis" complete the final spacewalk of the Space Shuttle era, recouping an ammonia pump on the International Space Station (ISS).
2011-07-12

Space Shuttle "Endeavour" launches successfully from Kennedy Space Center at 4:14 EST, marking the beginning of STS-130, a two-week mission to the International Space Station.
2010-02-8