http://www.mail.com/organizations/186322-national-aeronautics-space-administration.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/organizations/186322-national-aeronautics-space-administration.html http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2090822-nasa-pump-resolves-big-space-station-leak.html CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An impromptu spacewalk over the weekend seems to have fixed a big ammonia leak at the International Space Station, NASA said Thursday. The "gusher" erupted a week ago, prompting the hastiest repair job ever by residents of the orbiting lab. Spacewalking astronauts replaced a suspect ammonia pump on Saturday, just two days after... Thu, 16 May 2013 17:35:38 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2090822-nasa-pump-resolves-big-space-station-leak.html 2013-05-16T17:35:38Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2088320-nasa-crafts-planet-hunting-days-numbered.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — NASA's planet-hunting Kepler telescope is broken, potentially jeopardizing the search for other worlds where life could exist outside our solar system. If engineers can't find a fix, the failure could mean an end to the $600 million mission's search, although the space agency wasn't ready to call it quits Wednesday. The telescope has di... Thu, 16 May 2013 01:38:20 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2088320-nasa-crafts-planet-hunting-days-numbered.html 2013-05-16T01:38:20Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2083330-3-man-space-crew-returns-safely-to-earth.html MOSCOW (AP) — A Soyuz space capsule with a three-man crew returning from a five-month mission to the International Space Station landed safely Tuesday on the steppes of Kazakhstan. Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, American Thomas Marshburn and Russian Roman Romanenko landed as planned southeast of the town of Dzhezkazgan at 8:31 a.m. local time Tuesday ... Tue, 14 May 2013 08:32:37 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2083330-3-man-space-crew-returns-safely-to-earth.html 2013-05-14T08:32:37Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2081738-astronaut-exits-space-station-with-music-video.html CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — In a high-flying, perfectly pitched first, an astronaut on the International Space Station is bowing out of orbit with a musical video: his own custom version of David Bowie's "Space Oddity." It's believed to be the first music video made in space, according to NASA. Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield's personalized rendition of... Tue, 14 May 2013 02:46:32 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2081738-astronaut-exits-space-station-with-music-video.html 2013-05-14T02:46:32Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2078554-spacewalking-repair-halts-station-leak-.html CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronauts making a rare, hastily planned spacewalk replaced a pump outside the International Space Station on Saturday in hopes of plugging a serious ammonia leak. The prospects of success grew as the minutes, then hours passed and no frozen flecks of ammonia appeared. Mission Control said it appeared as though the leak may ha... Sat, 11 May 2013 21:53:43 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2078554-spacewalking-repair-halts-station-leak-.html 2013-05-11T21:53:43Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2076944-nasa-spacewalk-planned-to-space-station-leak.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Two astronauts will make a hastily planned spacewalk Saturday to try to fix an ammonia leak in the power system of the International Space Station. The leak in a cooling system was discovered Thursday when "snowflakes" of ammonia were seen flying away from the station. Engineers on Earth were up overnight plotting an impromptu spacewalk.... Fri, 10 May 2013 22:33:38 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2076944-nasa-spacewalk-planned-to-space-station-leak.html 2013-05-10T22:33:38Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2054086-russia-charging-nasa-70-rocket-seat.html CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA is paying $424 million more to Russia to get U.S. astronauts into space, and the agency's leader is blaming Congress for the extra expense. NASA announced its latest contract with the Russian Space Agency on Tuesday. The $424 million represents flights to and from the International Space Station aboard Russian Soyuz spacec... Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:18:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2054086-russia-charging-nasa-70-rocket-seat.html 2013-04-30T21:18:07Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2031162-russian-worlds-oldest-spacewalker-59.html CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A 59-year-old Russian cosmonaut became the world's oldest spacewalker Friday, joining a much younger cosmonaut's son for maintenance work outside the International Space Station. Pavel Vinogradov, a cosmonaut for two decades, claimed the honor as he emerged from the hatch with Roman Romanenko. But he inadvertently added to the ... Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:17:15 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2031162-russian-worlds-oldest-spacewalker-59.html 2013-04-19T21:17:15Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2028902-nasa-sees-distant-planets-that-ideal-life.html WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA's planet-hunting telescope has discovered two planets that seem like ideal places for some sort of life to flourish. And they are just the right size and in just the right place. One is toasty, the other nippy. The distant duo are the best candidates for habitable planets that astronomers have found so far, said William Borucki, the... Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:30:15 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2028902-nasa-sees-distant-planets-that-ideal-life.html 2013-04-18T21:30:15Z http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2026864-east-coast-test-rocket-launch-scrubbed.html WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. (AP) — A private company hired by NASA to make supply runs to the International Space Station scrubbed a Wednesday test launch of an unmanned rocket, saying an important data cord linked to the rocket's second stage detached too soon. The towering Antares rocket had been scheduled to blast off Wednesday afternoon from Wallops Island on... Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:05:16 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2026864-east-coast-test-rocket-launch-scrubbed.html 2013-04-18T00:05:16Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2010906-agency-by-agency-guide-to-obamas-2014-budget.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has proposed a $3.8 trillion budget for fiscal 2014 that aims to slash the deficit by a net $600 billion over 10 years, raise taxes and trim popular benefit programs, including Social Security and Medicare. The White House claims deficit reductions of $1.8 trillion, but Obama's proposal would negate more than $1 trillion in automatic ... Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:41:12 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2010906-agency-by-agency-guide-to-obamas-2014-budget.html 2013-04-10T23:41:12Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2001406-senator-nasa-to-lasso-asteroid-bring-closer.html WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA is planning for a robotic spaceship to lasso a small asteroid and park it near the moon for astronauts to explore, a top senator said Friday. The ship would capture the 500-ton, 25-foot asteroid in 2019. Then using an Orion space capsule, a crew of about four astronauts would nuzzle up next to the rock in 2021 for spacewalking explo... Fri, 05 Apr 2013 22:46:31 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2001406-senator-nasa-to-lasso-asteroid-bring-closer.html 2013-04-05T22:46:31Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1985326-us-russian-crew-blasts-space-station.html BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AP) — A Russian spacecraft carrying a three-man crew blasted off Friday from a launch pad in the steppes of Kazakhstan, for the first time taking a shorter path to the International Space Station. Instead of the two-day approach maneuver used by Soyuz spacecraft in the past, this journey to the station would take NASA astronaut Chris... Thu, 28 Mar 2013 21:13:13 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1985326-us-russian-crew-blasts-space-station.html 2013-03-28T21:13:13Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1985236-budget-cuts-slow-commercial-space-progress.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — The head of NASA says federal spending cuts could eventually slow progress on commercial efforts to fly to space. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden sounded the warning Thursday two days after SpaceX's Dragon capsule returned from a supply run to the International Space Station with a splashdown in the Pacific. Bolden says there's no sig... Thu, 28 Mar 2013 20:20:41 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1985236-budget-cuts-slow-commercial-space-progress.html 2013-03-28T20:20:41Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1979656-spacex-dragon-cargo-ship-splashes-pacific.html CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The SpaceX Dragon capsule returned to Earth on Tuesday with a full science load from the International Space Station — and a bunch of well-used children's Legos. The privately owned cargo ship splashed down in the Pacific right on target, 250 miles off the coast of Mexico's Baja Peninsula, five hours after leaving the orbiting ... Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:27:25 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1979656-spacex-dragon-cargo-ship-splashes-pacific.html 2013-03-26T18:27:25Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1969524-scientists-find-universe-80-years-older.html PARIS (AP) — A new examination of what is essentially the universe's birth certificate allows astronomers to tweak the age, girth and speed of the cosmos, more secure in their knowledge of how it evolved, what it's made of and its ultimate fate. Sure, the universe suddenly seems to be showing its age, now calculated at 13.8 billion years — 80 million year... Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:26:52 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1969524-scientists-find-universe-80-years-older.html 2013-03-21T21:26:52Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1968128-amazon-ceo-recovers-apollo-engines-atlantic.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rusted pieces of two Apollo-era rocket engines that helped boost astronauts to the moon have been fished out of the murky depths of the Atlantic, Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos and NASA said Wednesday. A privately funded expedition led by Bezos raised the main engine parts during three weeks at sea and was headed back to Cape Canaveral, Fla.... Wed, 20 Mar 2013 23:45:32 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1968128-amazon-ceo-recovers-apollo-engines-atlantic.html 2013-03-20T23:45:32Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1958932-3-astronauts-return-to-earth-space-station.html MOSCOW (AP) — A Soyuz space capsule carrying an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts landed Saturday morning on the foggy steppes of Kazakhstan, safely returning the three men to Earth after a 144-day mission to the International Space Station. NASA's Kevin Ford and Russians Oleg Novitsky and Yevgeny Tarelkin had been scheduled to return on Frida... Sat, 16 Mar 2013 10:19:42 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1958932-3-astronauts-return-to-earth-space-station.html 2013-03-16T10:19:42Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1928016-supply-ship-meets-space-station-shaky-start.html CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private Earth-to-orbit delivery service made good on its latest shipment to the International Space Station on Sunday, overcoming mechanical difficulty and delivering a ton of supplies with high-flying finesse. To NASA's relief, the SpaceX company's Dragon capsule pulled up to the orbiting lab with all of its systems in perfe... Sun, 03 Mar 2013 23:22:04 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1928016-supply-ship-meets-space-station-shaky-start.html 2013-03-03T23:22:04Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1924190-spacex-company-fixes-dragon-capsule-problem.html CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A commercial craft carrying a ton of supplies for the International Space Station ran into thruster trouble shortly after liftoff Friday. Flight controllers managed to gain control, but were forced to delay its arrival at the orbiting lab. The earliest the Dragon capsule could show up is Sunday, a full day late, said top offici... Fri, 01 Mar 2013 23:14:17 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1924190-spacex-company-fixes-dragon-capsule-problem.html 2013-03-01T23:14:17Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1919428-tycoon-wants-to-send-married-couple-mars-flyby.html WASHINGTON (AP) — It's a road trip that could test the best of marriages: Mars. A tycoon announced plans Wednesday to send a middle-aged couple on a privately built spaceship to slingshot around the red planet and come back home, hopefully with their bodies and marriage in one piece after 501 days of no-escape togetherness in a cramped capsule half the si... Wed, 27 Feb 2013 23:08:13 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1919428-tycoon-wants-to-send-married-couple-mars-flyby.html 2013-02-27T23:08:13Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1915266-house-votes-to-rename-flight-center-armstrong.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has approved a bill to rename a NASA flight center in California for the late astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon. The measure, which passed on a 394-0 vote, would rename the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base as the Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center. Armstrong, who died in 20... Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:13:29 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1915266-house-votes-to-rename-flight-center-armstrong.html 2013-02-26T00:13:29Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1901128-nasa-regains-space-station-contact-outage.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The International Space Station regained contact with NASA controllers in Houston after nearly three hours of accidental quiet, the space agency says. Officials say the six crew members and station are fine and had no problem during the brief outage. NASA spokesman Josh Byerly said something went wrong around 9:45 a.m. EST Tuesday during... Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:36:45 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1901128-nasa-regains-space-station-contact-outage.html 2013-02-19T18:36:45Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1895684-2-space-rocks-hours-apart-point-up-danger.html CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A space rock even bigger than the meteor that exploded like an atom bomb over Russia could drop out of the sky unannounced at any time and wreak havoc on a city. And Hollywood to the contrary, there isn't much the world's scientists and generals can do about it. But some former astronauts want to give the world a fighting chanc... Fri, 15 Feb 2013 23:16:46 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1895684-2-space-rocks-hours-apart-point-up-danger.html 2013-02-15T23:16:46Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1894274-skyfall-meteorites-strike-earth-months.html BERLIN (AP) — A meteor exploded in the sky above Russia's Ural Mountains on Friday, causing a shockwave that blew out countless windows and injured hundreds of people with flying glass. Here's a look at those objects in the sky: Q. What's the difference between a meteor and a meteorite? A. Meteors are pieces of space... Fri, 15 Feb 2013 19:59:52 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1894274-skyfall-meteorites-strike-earth-months.html 2013-02-15T19:59:52Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1882786-latest-earth-satellite-launches-calif-coast.html VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — A satellite launched into space Monday will keep closer tabs on Earth's glaciers, crops, forests and shorelines, continuing a tradition that began four decades ago. The Landsat satellite was boosted into orbit by an Atlas V rocket shortly before 11:30 a.m. local time, more than an hour after lifting off from the se... Mon, 11 Feb 2013 21:06:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1882786-latest-earth-satellite-launches-calif-coast.html 2013-02-11T21:06:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1878150-earth-observing-satellite-to-launch-calif.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — Carrying on a four-decade tradition, a new Earth-observing satellite is set to provide another watchful eye over our planet's glaciers, forests, water resources and urban sprawl. If all goes as planned, the Landsat satellite will be launched into orbit Monday aboard a 200-foot-tall Atlas V rocket from the Vandenberg Air Force Base along... Fri, 08 Feb 2013 20:58:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1878150-earth-observing-satellite-to-launch-calif.html 2013-02-08T20:58:00Z