NASA’s own internal watchdog has identified schedule delays and unresolved crew safety risks in the two lunar landers meant to return astronauts to the moon’s surface. The Office of Inspector General report,

An annual safety report to NASA has both praise for the agency and also underscores a number of cautionary woes, including the space agency’s undertaking of the Artemis back-to-the-moon with humans campaign. The annual report from the Aerospace Safety ...

My first real taste of space journalism came on the morning of February 1, 2003. An editor at the Houston Chronicle telephoned me at home on a Saturday morning and asked me to hurry to Johnson Space Center to help cover the loss of Space Shuttle Columbia.

In a recent turn of events, a NASA astronaut was evacuated from the space station after suddenly losing the ability to speak. He became the first one to have be

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronaut safety and delays were top concerns in a new audit of NASA’s plans to use either SpaceX’s Starship or Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lunar landers on future Artemis missions ...

NASA’s safety panel urged the agency and SpaceX to “maintain focus” amid recent mission setbacks, equipment malfunctions and last week’s hospitalization of a crew returning from the International Space Station. At an Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel ...

NASA and SpaceX are scheduled to launch another crew of astronauts to the International Space Station on Thursday in the sort of mission that has given the U.S. space program an aura of triumph. But this time around it comes amid deep turmoil at the space ...

Employees gather in front of the first Space Launch System core stage as it is rolled out in January 2020. A NASA safety panel recommends the agency develop a strategic plan for guiding the future size and composition of its workforce. Credit: NASA ...