National Aeronautics and Space Administration

On this day, 40 years back, man stepped on the moon

20 Jul 2009

Today, 20 July 2009, marks the 40th anniversary of the historic first moon walk when the American Apollo 11 mission became the first to land on the moon.

Northrop bags Space Fence project to monitor space debris

15 Jul 2009

Tracking and detecting the ever-proliferating space junk has now become a matter of urgency for all space-faring nations, particularly as space-related activities begin to mount in the coming years.

ESA, NASA to jointly explore Mars

11 Jul 2009

NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have agreed to establish a road map for future Mars missions through the Mars Exploration Joint Initiative (MEJI) programme, which will define a string of lander and orbiter missions to the Red Planet.

Indian students win second place in NASA’s supersonic airliner design contest

11 Jul 2009

NASA funds system to help aircraft avoid ocean storms

09 Jul 2009

With two tragic air incidents following hard on the heels of each other over the world’s oceans, comes some timely news from NASA which said it is funding development of a system designed to provide aircraft pilots with updates about severe storms and turbulence as they fly across remote ocean regions.

NASA's LRO spacecraft sends first lunar images to Earth

03 Jul 2009

NASA, Roscosmos sign $306 million space transport contract

29 May 2009

International Space Station takes on full staff of six

29 May 2009

For the first time in its history the international space station (ISS) has taken on a full complement of six astronauts with a Russian Soyuz capsule carrying three new space travellers docking at the orbiting complex on Friday.

Atlantis touch down completes Hubble repair mission

25 May 2009

Ex-shuttle commander Maj. Gen. Charles Bolden nominated to head NASA

25 May 2009

Atlantis crew replace gyroscopes in Hubble Space Telescope

16 May 2009

White House launches independent review of NASA's space programme

08 May 2009

Kepler beams back first images of star-packed galaxy

17 Apr 2009

NASA's Kepler mission has sent back its first images of a patch of sky where it will soon begin hunting for Earth-like planets.

Space junk: Clear and present danger

23 Mar 2009

With Nasa space missions dodging close calls from floating space junk in recent times, it’s now the turn of two Canadian satellites to try and survive the threat posed by these involuntary projectiles.

New solar panels to double experimental, manning capacity at the ISS: NASA

21 Mar 2009

International Space Station has close shave with space debris

13 Mar 2009

NASA postpones space shuttle launch after detecting hydrogen leak

12 Mar 2009

NASA puts Kepler space telescope in orbit

07 Mar 2009

NASA's Kepler to launch tomorrow in search for earth’s twin

06 Mar 2009

NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory satellite plunges into the ocean

25 Feb 2009

NASA's Kepler mission to seek other earths

20 Feb 2009

Fully reusable 'spacejet' just 10 years away

20 Feb 2009

A high-tech spacecraft that can take off and land from an ordinary runway, and will slash the cost of flying to space, could be just 10 years away, according to its developers