Houston-based Starlab Space recently completed a space station mockup at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Astronauts will test its design and use it for training.
The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation on Monday advanced Jared Isaacman to the full Senate for a vote on the NASA administrator role.
NASA said Boeing’s Starliner-1 mission could launch uncrewed in April to validate spacecraft upgrades and deliver cargo to the International Space Station.
After 43 anxious days without pay or certainty, NASA employees are returning to work Thursday at the Johnson Space Center in Houston as the federal government reopens
President Donald Trump has again nominated billionaire pilot Jared Isaacman to lead NASA, reviving a choice he withdrew months ago amid political infighting and budget battles.
Microbiologists at the University of Houston confirmed that a bacterium found in NASA spacecraft assembly rooms, called Tersicoccus phoenicis, will go dormant when it runs out of food.