1st Untethered Spacewalker Was Son, Grandson of MoH Recipients The first astronaut to take an untethered "spacewalk" died last week at age 80.
Trump Picks Former NASA Chief to Head New Pentagon Tech Office Former NASA Administrator Michael Griffin has been nominated to head a new Pentagon technology office.
Air Force Colonel-Turned-Astronaut Details Space Mission Col. Jack Fischer, selected in 2009 as an astronaut, recently returned from a mission on board the International Space...
Russia Suggests Trampolines to Launch Astronauts A Russian official is suggesting that American astronauts get to the International Space Station by using trampolines instead...
Anchorage Completes NASA Orion Mission USS Anchorage successfully completed recovery operations of the NASA Orion crew module, forward bay cover, and parachutes...
NASA Turns to Navy and Marine Corps for a Few Good Astronauts NASA is recruiting service members from the Navy and Marine Corps who have the "right stuff" to become astronauts.
US Lawmakers Propose Bill to Limit Purchases of Russian Rocket Engines Key GOP lawmakers plan to file legislation repealing a Defense bill provision allowing the Pentagon to buy an unlimited...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
