The highway to space cuts across dozens of districts but few are more vested in America’s off-planet endeavors than central Florida, home to the Kennedy Space Center, the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and blueprints for a state-run commercial space...
The United States’ first chance to cut some time off a planned five-year hiatus in launching people into orbit is over. NASA told us yesterday it’s giving up on flying a crew aboard the new Orion capsules until September 2014...
Three years ago a spacecraft dive-bombed into the ground, sending up a fountain of materials for telescopes to study. Rather than solid rock, the body turned out to be a loosely packed powder containing organic materials and -- surprisingly --...