Competition to run JPL comes at fraught moment of federal budget cuts, project overruns, management missteps

A competitive contract isn't necessarily a bad thing, experts say. But the administration's anti-science record raises ...

NASA directs its ISS crew members to board spacecraft amid leak repair attempt

NASA directed five astronauts to board a docked Dragon spacecraft as cosmonauts attempt to address a leak on the ...

NASA's Iconic Jet Propulsion Laboratory Could Change Hands for the First Time

Caltech has led JPL to some of the most ambitious and successful missions in NASA's history, but the agency could be about to ...
Flightglobal

NASA prepares to retire DC-8 airborne laboratory

American aerospace agency NASA is preparing to retire its unique flying laboratory after 37 years of service. The aircraft, which NASA describes as the “largest flying science laboratory in the world” ...
Inverse

37 Years Later, NASA Retires Its Famous Flying Laboratory

Pour one out for NASA’s large flying laboratory, an old and hardworking DC-8 aircraft that the space and aeronautics agency just retired. The plane came into the world in 1969, the same year that NASA ...
Flying

NASA Teams Remember Flying Science Laboratory as It Heads for Retirement

NASA’s DC-8 Airborne Research Laboratory returns to the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California after completing its final scientific mission on April 1.

NASA just turned a retired Boeing 777 into a powerful airborne science lab: How a passenger jet became a flying laboratory for 100 scientists

NASA’s Boeing 777 has returned to Langley Research Centre in Virginia after undergoing major modifications that have transformed it from a commercial passenger aircraft into a powerful airborne ...
SpaceNews

NASA’s Space-Based Quantum Science Lab Keeps Getting Better

The agency’s Cold Atom Lab is getting its second major upgrade and will be using it to explore the quantum realm. On Tuesday, Aug. 1, a major hardware update for NASA’s Cold Atom Lab lifted off aboard ...
Business Wire

Rocket Lab to Launch NASA Astrophysics Science Mission on Electron to Study Galaxy Evolution

LONG BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or the “Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems, today announced it has been selected by ...
Scientific American

NASA Lab’s Workforce Woes Threaten Major Space Missions

Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) can now breathe a collective sigh of relief. After a year-long delay, the lab’s Psyche mission finally launched in October to visit a metal-rich ...