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NASA gets budget hike in spending bill passed by Congress
NASA will receive $18 billion in the federal government's 2015 budget passed by the U.S. Senate on Saturday, winning nearly all the funds the agency says it needs this year to develop commercial space capsules to fly astronauts to the International Space Station by the end of 2017.
VideoNASA Administrator speaks about Orion test flight
NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden speaks to Spaceflight Now's Stephen Clark about the upcoming test flight of the Orion space capsule on the EFT-1 mission.
Orion orbital trace
NASA's Orion spacecraft will fly a two-orbit, four-hour mission for Exploration Flight Test No. 1 in Earth orbit to test systems.
NASA clears commercial crew contractors to resume work
Boeing Co. and SpaceX, selected by NASA last month to carry astronauts to the International Space Station, can resume development of their human-rated spacecraft after officials ordered a work stoppage prompted by a protest by Sierra Nevada Corp., the company left out of the contracts.
NuSTAR discovers brilliant ‘mighty mouse’ pulsar
A NASA space telescope studying X-ray emissions from a nearby galaxy has discovered the brightest pulsar ever detected, the fast-spinning remnant of a collapsed star that shines so intensely it was initially mistaken for a massive black hole, a possible "missing link" between compact stellar-mass black holes and the unseen monsters lurking at the cores of many galaxies.
X-37B space planes to move into shuttle hangars
Boeing engineers are outfitting two decommissioned space shuttle hangars at the Kennedy Space Center for the U.S. Air Force's secretive X-37B space plane.
Orion’s Delta 4-Heavy rocket moved to launch pad
The booster rocket that will launch NASA's next-generation Orion space capsule on a two-orbit, four-hour shakedown cruise in December has been rolled to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral.
Boeing, SpaceX told to stop work under crew contracts
NASA has directed Boeing and SpaceX to halt activities under contracts awarded last month to build commercial space taxis to ferry astronauts to the Space Station while the U.S. Government Accountability Office reviews a protest of NASA's decision filed by Sierra Nevada.
India, NASA plot science campaign for Mars orbiters
Officials working on India's Mars orbiter project are finalizing plans for a six-month science campaign after the spacecraft arrived in orbit last week, an achievement that has already satisfied the mission's primary objectives, the head of India's space agency said.
Launch of the Curiosity Mars rover
This video captures the final portion of the launch countdown and follows the Atlas 5 rocket's flight through arrival in the preliminary orbit carrying the Curiosity rover headed for Mars. (Membership Required)