Jerry Lawson - How He Changed the Game

Many of us as kids loved to play video games. How many of us had or played the original Atari 2600 or Mattel’s Intellivision? If…

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden’s Year-End Message - 2011

As this year comes to end the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)  Administrator, Charles Frank Bolden Jr, gives his year end message about the 2011 accomplishments of NASA and a glimpse into what is to come in 2012.

NASA’S KEPLER CONFIRMS ITS FIRST PLANET IN HABITABLE ZONE OF SUN-LIKE STAR

MOFFET FIELD, Calif. -- NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the "habitable zone," the region where liquid water could exist on a…

Orion’s Launch Abort System Makes a Stop in Philly

The city of brotherly love received a first-hand glimpse into the future of NASA's space travel and astronaut safety, when the 45-foot long simulated version of the Orion abort system was parked outside the Franklin Institute.   

New Collaborations Bring Excitement of Space to Next Generation of Explorers

In a series of innovative collaborations this past summer -- including a public service announcement with Recording Artist Mary J. Blige and a 'physics of…

Space…Third Time’s the Charm

The most recent launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery was the third return to space for NASA Astronaut Stephanie Wilson, who is the second African-American woman to ever reach space, as part of…