Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's first lunar campaign in five decades since the Apollo era came to an end should be a little more technologically advanced ...

Imagine monitoring a robot working more than 200,000 miles away on the lunar surface — a stressful job, and one that requires operators to be on the ball at all times while in small control room for ...

The next-generation Orion spacecraft, which will take astronauts to the Moon for the first time in over 60 years, is so full of new tech that NASA reportedly needed a new control room just to manage ...

HOUSTON (AP) — Plans to restore the NASA mission control room that served as the nerve center for the Apollo missions, when man first reached the moon, have been discussed for more than 20 years, but ...

Scientists and engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, CA went nuts on Monday after their InSight lander made a successful touchdown on Mars. NASA launched the mining and exploration ...

It's human nature to always notice the ones among us who achieve something extraordinary, and almost completely ignore the armies of people that support great achievements. Just think about space ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA will host a ceremony to officially turn over the Launch Control Center’s Firing Room 1 from the Space Shuttle Program to the Constellation Program on Sept. 25 at 10 a.m.

There are fewer of them then there are astronauts and no NASA spaceflight would be a success without them at the helm. Yet, if the public knows anything about them it is likely 50-year-old history, ...

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