Surely you've heard that old joke about the Americ...  ...rograms:During the space race back in the 1960's, NASA was faced with a major problem. The astronaut nee...  ...ed a pen that would write in the vacuum of space. NASA went to work. At a cost of $1.5 million they deve...

(Photo: Charles Atkeison)You might not make it int...  ...but you might get to Space Camp. Since 1982, this NASA program at the US Space & Rocket Center in Hu...  ...hours inside mock-ups of a space shuttle cockpit, NASA mission control and the International Space Stati...

[http://youtu.be/VZagpd38gKw] (YouTube link)Imagin...  ...g on the ISS when the government furloughs 97% of NASA employees because of a shutdown. Furloughed emplo...

NASA is looking for volunteers to stay in bed for 70 d...

The MESSENGER spacecraft took this image on the su...  ...g them until 2015. So it's no wonder that it took NASA this long to analyze enough data to determine tha...  ...at Han Solo has been photographed. Here's part of NASA 's statement on the find:If there are two things y...  ...twelve parsecs.Link -via Geeko...

Before we can boldly go where no one has gone befo...  ...popular pop culture vehicles with real ones from NASA 's space program.

NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope discovered a star formin...  ...Ik](Video Link)Link -via Ace of Spades HQ(Images: NASA , CBS)

Gordon Cooper, one of the original Mercury 7 astro...  ...g the solo space traveler to revise the checklist NASA had prepared for his entry back to Earth. Meanwhi...

NASA engineers are busy investigating the cause of the...

The submissions are in, and now it's time for you to vote on your favorite entry in the Message to Mars contest! There are 12,000 entries, which you can sort by current ranking, by search term, or randomly, and vote on t...