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Charles Frank "Charlie" Bolden, Jr. (born August 19, 1946) is the current Administrator of NASA, a retired United States Marine Corps major general, and former NASA astronaut.
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A first-of-its-kind commercial supply ship rocketed toward the International Space Station following a successful liftoff early Tuesday, opening a new era of dollar-driven spaceflight.
The SpaceX company made history as its Falcon 9 rocket rose from its seaside launch pad and pierced the pre-dawn sky, aiming for a rendezvous in a few days with the space station. The unmanned rocket carried into orbit a capsule named Dragon that is packed with 1,000 pounds of space station provisions.It is the first time a private company has launched a vessel to the space station. Before, that was something only major governments had done."Falcon flew perfectly!!" SpaceX's billionaire founder, Elon Musk, said via Twitter. "Dragon in orbit ... Feels like a giant weight just came off my back."Musk later told reporters: "I feel very lucky ... For us, it's like winning the Super Bowl."This time, the Falcon's nine engines kept firing all the way through liftoff. On Saturday, flight computers aborted the laun...Scientists are keeping a close eye on a big asteroid that may pose an impact threat to Earth in a few decades.The space rock, which is called 2011 AG5, is about 460 ...
NASA is making a cosmic U-turn on the road to Mars.For the past two decades, the U.S. space agency has been practically obsessed with Mars. It has hardly missed an o...
The last astronaut to command the space shuttle is retiring from NASA, the space agency announced Monday, Dec. 5.Astronaut Chris Ferguson, who commanded the final mi...
Deep space, here we come!NASA announced the design for its next-generation rocket Wednesday morning, a potentially $35 billion vehicle called the Space Launch System...
With the space shuttle now history, NASA's next great mission is so audacious, the agency's best minds are wrestling with how to pull it off: Send astronauts to an a...
NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has finally arrived at the giant crater Endeavour, after nearly three years of intrepid driving across the surface of the Red Planet.Th...
The commander-in-chief, President Barack Obama , donned the jacket for a different type of commander while meeting with the astronauts who flew NASA's final space sh...
Do you have the "right stuff?"NASA is now accepting applications for its next class of astronauts, the space agency announced Tuesday, an effort to bolster its reser...
NASA announced its choice for a new rocket design that would take humans beyond low-Earth orbit to an asteroid and Mars Wednesday (Sept. 14), but now the big questio...
First moonwalker Neil Armstrong, first American in orbit John Glenn, Mission Control founder Chris Kraft, Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell, first shuttle pilot Robert ...
The space shuttle was sold to America as cheap, safe and reliable. It was none of those.It cost $196 billion over 40 years, ended the lives of 14 astronauts and mana...
Next stop, Gale Crater.NASA has chosen the landing spot for the car-sized Mars Science Laboratory, the successor to the famously successful Spirit and Opportunity ro...
A private spacecraft stands ready to launch on a historic first visit to the International Space Station early Saturday morning.The unmanned Dragon space capsule , b...
Fifty years after becoming the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth, John Glenn will be bestowed with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highes...
NASA is drafting backup plans to prolong the use of Russian spacecraft for ferrying astronauts to the International Space Station, even as agency officials play down...
John Glenn plans to mark the 50th anniversary of his historic spaceflight with a series of events Monday at Ohio State University, including a celebratory dinner and...
NASA plans to drop nearly $310 million from the budget for its Planetary Science division in 2013, a 20 percent cut that affects future missions to Mars, lunar scien...
A group of parapsychology sleuths accuse NASA of hiding evidence of aliens on the lunar surface -- wild tales that sound like an amalgamation of Hollywood sci-fi mov...
The head of NASA met Monday with former astronauts to discuss who owns space artifacts from moon shots and other missions, saying afterward that the agency will work...
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