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NASA has announced more delays in sending astronauts back to the moon more than 50 years after Apollo.

NASA has announced more delays in sending astronauts back to the moon more than 50 years after Apollo.

President-elect Donald Trump has tapped a tech billionaire who performed the first private spacewalk to lead NASA.

The women who contributed to getting Americans on the moon will be honored with Congressional Gold Medals.

NASA says it won't use Boeing's Starliner capsule to bring two stranded astronauts back to Earth.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson has announced astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will remain at the International Space Station until February 2025.

NASA has decided it’s too risky to bring two astronauts back to Earth in Boeing’s troubled new capsule.

NASA will decide this weekend whether Boeing's new capsule is safe enough to return two astronauts from the International Space Station, where they've been waiting since June.

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Boeing, NASA and United Launch Alliance launched the oft-delayed first crewed flight for Starliner from Florida’s Space Coast.

Exploring the cosmos makes for happy employees, federal workers like to work from home like everyone else, and an agency that has struggled with low morale is showing improvement.

A new report this month from the NASA Office of Inspector General raises concerns about the capsule the space agency wants to use to send astronauts around the moon in just a year.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will hold a news conference at Kennedy Space Center ahead of the first crewed flight test of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft.

Pleading with Congress how to spend our money is the job of the NASA administrator and this year on Capitol Hill, Bill Nelson is asking for $25 billion even as Washington cuts spending.

NASA is seeking a faster, cheaper way to bring rock samples from Mars to Earth.

It’s your Space Coast correspondent James Sparvero, and I’m reading about a fascinating new agreement between NASA and Japan’s space agency which trades two seats on a moon landing mission for building another moon rover to help astronauts explore unexplored parts of the lunar surface.

On Sunday, SpaceX successfully launched the “Bandwagon-1″ mission to low-Earth orbit with a Falcon 9 rocket.

NASA’s budget got caught in the crossfire over spending in Congress, and will suffer budget cuts over the next two fiscal years, administrator Bill Nelson said Monday during his State of NASA address.

The first private U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon broke a leg at touchdown before falling over.

The countdown is on. NASA's Crew-8 astronauts are one step closer to liftoff from Launch Complex 39 at Kennedy Space Center.

Astronauts will have to wait until next year before flying to the moon and at least two years before landing on it.

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Ken Mattingly, an astronaut who is best remembered for his efforts on the ground that helped bring the damaged Apollo 13 spacecraft safely back to Earth, has died.

NASA says the study of UFOs will require new scientific techniques, including advanced satellites as well as a shift in how unidentified flying objects are perceived.

NASA held a news conference Monday morning to announce that climate scientists found that July 2023 shattered the previous record, set in 2019, by two-tenths of a degree Celsius.

NASA officials joined the four-person crew of Artemis II on Tuesday to give an update on mission preparations at Kennedy Space Center.

Jeff Bezos' rocket company has won a NASA contract to land astronauts on the moon, two years after losing out to SpaceX.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson accompanied fellow agency heads Friday morning to announce Blue Origin was awarded a contract to develop a lunar lander for upcoming Artemis moon missions.

NASA administrator Bill Nelson testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation Tuesday about how much money the administration claims it needs for the 2024 fiscal year.

NASA officials announced the astronauts who will crew the Artemis II mission as early as 2024.

NASA had a big year in 2022, and the Biden administration is asking for even more money as the space agency moves forward on its goals.

As soon as Artemis I ended so perfectly Sunday, gently splashing down in the pacific, the Orion capsule scorched but intact, NASA looked ahead to Artemis II.

NASA’s Orion capsule is back from the moon.

NASA planned for a Sunday splashdown off Mexico’s coast for the Orion capsule as the Artemis I mission came to an end.

NASA says a spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away last month succeeded in shifting its orbit.

A NASA spacecraft has rammed an asteroid in an unprecedented test to see if a potentially menacing space rock could be knocked off course.

The launch team for the Artemis I moon mission headed back to their stations at the Kennedy Space Center Tuesday afternoon to prepare for a final, vital test before the mega rocket is set to launch in a week.

No new launch date has been announced yet as NASA crews try to find a way to stop the leak. The rocket will be rolled back to the Vehicle Assembly Building, but it’s not known when.

NASA is counting down toward a Saturday launch of its new moon rocket, its second attempt in a week.

Stacker reviewed the collection to select 31 of the most breathtaking images, including the first from the James Webb Space Telescope.

NASA crews at Kennedy Space Center are seeing a light at the end of the tunnel as they ready for the first launch of the Space Launch System rocket for the Artemis I mission.

Congress on Thursday passed the CHIPS Act and sent it to President Biden for his signature.

NASA on Tuesday will unveil the first full-color images returned by the James Webb Space Telescope.

It would not be the first time the orbiting laboratory has had to contend with debris it shares said orbit with.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told a lunchroom full of students at Ventura Elementary School in Kissimmee that they could go to the moon on NASA's next rocket heading that way.

NASA Administrator will testify about the space agency's 2023 budget.

Sending private citizens to NASA’s International Space Station from American soil had never happened until today because NASA hadn’t allowed it.

In a series of tweets posted early Saturday morning, the man in charge of the Russian space agency Roscosmos said the country’s cooperation with other nations aboard the International Space Station will not be restored until “illegal sanctions” from the U.S., Canada, European Union and Japan on Russia are lifted.

During a panel at the Plaza Live, Administrator Bill Nelson, former NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden, and several of their Space Shuttle Columbia STS-61C crewmates spoke with college and local high school students.

The White House revealed on Monday the federal government’s spending plan over the next year, which includes a $26 billion budget request for NASA.

The Biden Administration is requesting $26 billion for NASA in 2023, up $2 billion from the previous year. How much money NASA actually gets will be decided by Congress.

NASA is opening competition for private companies to build the landers for missions that follow.

A trio of Russian cosmonauts have arrived at the International Space Station wearing yellow and blue flight suits similar to the colors of the Ukrainian flag.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Friday played down recent comments by the head of Russia’s space agency that the United States would have to use broomsticks to fly to space after Russia said it would stop supplying rocket engines to U.S. companies.

The world's largest and most powerful space telescope has blasted off on a high-stakes quest to behold light from the first stars and galaxies.

If schedules hold, the James Webb telescope will start its 10-year mission on Christmas Eve.

NASA is shooting for next Friday to launch its newest space telescope.

In Houston Monday, NASA chose a DeBary pilot and engineer to its newest class of astronauts.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson talked about a new, more automated system, in collaboration with the FAA, to get planes in the air quicker, while also reducing maintenance costs and passenger wait times.

Russian officials are rejecting accusations that they endangered astronauts aboard the International Space Station by conducting a weapons test that created more than 1,500 pieces of space junk.

U.S. officials say a Russian weapons test created the space junk now threatening the seven astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

Three veteran astronauts will be inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame Saturday morning at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

NASA will likely not land humans on the moon in 2024 as the agency projected under the Trump administration.

NASA won't be putting astronauts back on the moon until at least 2025.

Australia has agreed to build a 44-pound semi-autonomous lunar rover for NASA to take to the moon as early as 2026.

On Wednesday NASA administrator Bill Nelson announced Janet Petro will replace Bob Cabana as the new director of the Kennedy Space Center, making her the first woman to lead the center.

NASA's new administrator, former U.S. Senator Bill Nelson, is a only a few weeks into his new job, but he's already hit the ground running.

China has postponed a supply mission to its new space station for unspecified technical reasons, while photos sent back from Mars by its newly arrived rover earned plaudits from NASA.

After leading Kennedy Space Center for more than a decade, Robert “Bob” Cabana is taking on a new role at NASA headquarters as associate administrator.

NASA's new administrator is big on tackling climate and diversifying the agency's workforce.

Nelson said he wanted both previous administrators there “to show the continuity and bipartisanship with which you run the nation’s space program, particularly NASA.”

The Senate has confirmed Bill Nelson, a former Florida senator who once flew on the space shuttle, to be the next NASA administrator.

Former Sen. Bill Nelson was confirmed unanimously by the U.S. Senate Thursday to lead NASA during a critical time as the U.S. Space Agency’s new administrator.

SpaceX has bumped its next astronaut launch by a day because of dangerously high waves and wind offshore.

Former Sen. Bill Nelson will go before the U.S. Senate later this month during a confirmation hearing where he is expected to be confirmed as NASA’s next administrator.

A group working to elect candidates with science, technology, engineering and math backgrounds plans to spend $50 million in the 2022 midterm elections.

Florida’s former Sen. Bill Nelson is set to become NASA’s next administrator if confirmed by the Senate, after President Joe Biden officially nominated the Brevard County native to lead the space agency on Friday. Former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine stepped down in January, the day Biden was sworn into office. Steve Jurczyk stepped in as the acting NASA administrator on Jan. 20. Senator Bill Nelson to lead our agency. If confirmed he will be the third NASA administrator to have achieved spaceflight.

President Joe Biden has chosen Nelson, a former senator from Florida who flew on the space shuttle to lead NASA. Scott Applewhite, File)CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – President Joe Biden has chosen a former senator from Florida who flew on the space shuttle right before the Challenger accident to lead NASA. Biden on Friday announced his intent to nominate Bill Nelson as the space agency's administrator. “There has been no greater champion, not just for Florida’s space industry, but for the space program as a whole than Bill,” Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, said in a statement. Plenty of qualified candidates,” retired space shuttle director and program manager Wayne Hale tweeted earlier this month.

Former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine stepped down in January, the day Biden was sworn into office. RUMINT: Former Sen. Bill Nelson (Fla.) is said to be Biden admin pick for NASA administrator, killing several birds with one stone: strong relationship with POTUS, congressional savvy. @Genevaexpat — Breaking Defense (@BreakingDefense) February 22, 2021Steve Jurczyk stepped in as the acting NASA administrator on Jan. 20. AdWhoever Biden nominates to lead NASA will still need to be confirmed in the Senate. Nelson did not support Bridenstine’s confirmation as NASA administrator, arguing the head of NASA should be someone in the spaceflight industry.

As election postmortems go, the one that began in Florida Wednesday was especially wrenching for Democrats. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Perhaps only in Florida is a loss by fewer than 4 percentage points considered a public drubbing. Democrats zeroed in on two clear explanations: Biden didn't connect with the state's Latino voters, performing particularly poorly with Cuban voters in South Florida. Some Democrats also give Republicans credit for registering thousands of new voters and narrowing the voter registration advantage Democrats have long had. For Taddeo, the Democratic state senator, it means going back to basics.

State leaders eliminated computer punchcard ballots, implemented statewide recount laws and made it easy to cast and process ballots before Election Day. Though there are other scenarios that make elections officials nervous, the computer punch-card ballots that fueled 2000's chaos are buried in history's landfill. Casting valid ballots and processing them is now easier, even before Election Day, and the Legislature has enacted clearer laws governing recounts. If the statewide margin then is within a half-percentage point — likely about 55,000 votes — a machine recount would occur. These voters are notified and have until two days after the election to prove their identity, but many won’t respond.

"And Im glad to be part of that.Johnson's campaign is part of a major change in strategy for Florida Democrats. Long accustomed to being on the losing side of razor-close races, state Democrats are mounting challenges in Republican strongholds not necessarily to win but to lose by less. For years, Florida Democrats largely have focused on running up the score in heavily Democratic urban precincts in South Florida in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties. But Florida Democrats are hoping that enthusiasm rises from the bottom up and compounds quickly. Were fielding candidates to win races, and we think that Trump will win Florida," said Florida Republican Party Chair Joe Gruters, who is running for reelection to his state Senate seat.