NEW YORK — In a city understandably wary of low-flying aircraft, New Yorkers and tourists alike watched with joy and excitement Friday as space shuttle Enterprise sailed over the skyline on its final flight before it becomes a museum piece.
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans on Thursday rejected cutting agency budgets below levels agreed to in last summer’s budget and debt pact with President Barack Obama as a key committee kicked off action on a round of 12 annual spending bills totaling more than $1.1 trillion.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space shuttle Discovery has one last mission to complete. At daybreak Tuesday, the oldest of NASA’s retired shuttle fleet will leave its home at Kennedy Space Center for the final time, riding on top a modified jumbo jet.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The name still resonates and generates goose bumps like few others in the world of spaceflight.
WASHINGTON — Taking a pass on reining in government growth, President Barack Obama unveiled a record $3.8 trillion election-year budget plan Monday, calling for stimulus-style spending on roads and schools and tax hikes on the wealthy to help pay the costs. The ideas landed with a thud on Capitol Hill.
WASHINGTON — Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich wants to create a lunar colony that he says could become a U.S. state. There’s his grand research plan to figure out what makes the human brain tick. And he’s warned about electromagnetic pulse attacks leaving America without electricity.
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian space probe designed to boost the nation’s pride on a bold mission to a moon of Mars has come down in flames, showering fragments into the south Pacific west of Chile’s coast, officials said.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Astronauts may have had the ‘right stuff’ to go to the moon, but when it comes to keeping track of what they brought back, NASA seems to have misplaced some of the stuff.