Space Shuttle Program Manager Bill Parsons today announced several key leadership changes within the office as it reorganizes and evolves following the Columbia accident. “This is a critical time for ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. On July 21, 2011, space shuttle Atlantis landed for the final time at ...

This line from a recent NASA Inspector General report jumped out at me: In addition to managing Shuttle funding challenges, the transition and retirement activities associated with the end of the ...

As NASA prepares for its final shuttle mission, a look at more than three decades of triumphs and tragedies Formally introduced by President Nixon on Jan. 5, 1972, the shuttle program set out, in the ...

The Space Shuttle Program is part of NASA's Human Exploration and Development of Space (HEDS) enterprise, under the authority of the Office of Space Flight. The program manager reports to the director ...

HOUSTON – NASA announced the selection of N. Wayne Hale, Jr. as NASA’s deputy associate administrator for strategic partnerships on Friday. John Shannon, a Mission Management Team chairman and Hale’s ...

An inexpensive space truck for big payloads. A manned spacecraft that could do on-orbit repairs, shuttle astronauts to the space station, do some on-orbit experiments and help deploy complex station ...

Turns out the candy-coated bits of chocolate have been aboard every shuttle mission, starting with Columbia's 1981 launch right up to the farewell launch of Atlantis this week. Eric Mack has been a ...