For the first time in decades, the US space agency ... the pivotal second phase of the space agency's commercial space station program. Three years ago, NASA awarded contracts to three companies ...

On Jan. 28, 1986, NASA's space shuttle program saw its darkest day at the time, when seven astronauts lost their lives as Challenger disintegrated shortly after launch. One of them was high school ...

At the time, it did not appear (to me ... the program was established to continue jobs that were attached to the Space Shuttle program after that vehicle ended its tenure in 2011.

and his time in office wasn’t characterized by grand visions for astronomy or human spaceflight. Yet, it was Carter who ultimately saved NASA’s space shuttle program — giving the country ...