NASA is the space agency run by the United States to oversee American space exploration, research and technology. NASA, or the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, was founded in 1958 as a civilian agency for U.S. space exploration. Prior to 1958, the agency's progenitor was known as the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. NASA develops, builds and launches missions to study the Earth, moon and sun, as well as the entire solar system and beyond. The agency has its headquarters in Washington D.C., with major centers in Florida (the Kennedy Space Center for launches) and Houston (the Johnson Space Center, home of the astronaut corps). Other centers are spread across the country for scientific research, test flights and spacecraft manufacturing. NASA's current chief is Administrator Jim Bridenstine, who is leading the agency's mission of returning astronauts to the moon and sending them on to Mars. See the latest NASA news.
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'Pushing this competition': SpaceX's Starship might not fly on NASA's newly revamped Artemis 3 mission
NASA's Artemis 3 mission will no longer land astronauts on the moon — and it might not involve SpaceX's Starship megarocket, either.
Nostrovia! We finally got our 1st look at Apple TV's 'Star City,' the Soviet 'For All Mankind' spinoff
See how the space race evolved from the other side in this new sci-fi series coming in May
NASA's Artemis 3 astronauts won't land on the moon after all. 'This is just not the right pathway forward.'
NASA is changing its plans to return astronauts to the moon, and redrawing the architecture for how the Artemis missions will look moving forward.
Artemis 2 moon mission shouldn't launch until late 2026, new analysis of solar superflares suggests
A new method of predicting when a superflare will erupt from the sun suggests that we are in the middle of such a period now — and that could be bad news for the Artemis 2 astronauts.
NASA shakes up leadership of human spaceflight program in wake of critical Starliner report
NASA has replaced two bigwigs in its human spaceflight program, just a week after releasing a report criticizing how the agency handled the first crewed flight of Boeing's Starliner astronaut taxi.
NASA's Artemis 2 moon rocket returns to hangar for repairs. When could it fly?
NASA has returned its Artemis 2 moon rocket to the Vehicle Assembly Building, where engineers can diagnose and repair an issue with the vehicle's upper stage.
NASA reveals the astronaut who required 1st medical evacuation from the International Space Station
It wasn't an emergency, but the issue required "immediate attention."
'The Space Force is my baby': Trump lauds military space in State of the Union but skips Artemis 2 moon crew namedrop
President Trump lauded the Space Force in his State of the Union address on Tuesday night (Feb. 24) but did not mention the Artemis 2 moon mission, which could launch as soon as April 1.
