Fifty years after President Kennedy’s call to put a man on the moon, the space agency is at a crossroads.

NASA must look beyond the earthly demands of deficit cutting and politics to chart its course.

After five successful spacewalks that have left the Hubble Space Telescope more capable than ever, astronauts on the space shuttle Atlantis hold a space-based press conference.

The fifth and final trip by shuttle astronauts to the Hubble Space Telescope will leave the historic satellite more capable than it has ever been, senior NASA officials said this week.
A shuttle mission scheduled for mid-October is set to deliver new components and undertake extensive in-space repairs—a first—on broken instruments attached to the orbiting [...]