Stories by: Michael Cooney

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NASA facing game-changing times 01/02/2010 16:54:00

When NASA Administrator Charles Bolden releases the space agency’s fiscal year 2011 budget this week it will likely be the beginning of a startling new phase of space research and activities.
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NASA space telescope quickly spots first asteroid 26/01/2010 14:13:00

Almost as soon as it came online, NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer has spotted a new, little over mile wide asteroid some 98 million miles from Earth.
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How will NASA defend Earth against killer asteroids and comets? 25/01/2010 10:51:00

Combinations of space- and ground-based telescopes may be the most economically palpable defenses NASA can mount against asteroids and comets heading toward Earth, but there are more advanced defenses involving spacecraft and nuclear explosions that might be plausible in the future.
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NASA: Options dwindling for Mars Spirit rover 16/01/2010 10:50:00

NASA says it is narrowing a short list of things its scientists can to extricate its stuck Mars Spirit rover.
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NASA telescopes watch cosmic violence, mysteries unravel 07/01/2010 12:42:00

In the past few days there has been a burst of new photos and information from all manner of NASA's spacecraft and telescopes. The devices, ranging from the Hubble to Kepler the Spitzer telescopes, are delivering new information on everything from massive supergiant stars to new planets. Here we've gathered up some of them for a quick look.
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NASA Mars rover Spirit has survivability option? 02/01/2010 02:43:00

As NASA celebrates its Mars rover Spirit’s sixth anniversary exploring the red planet it is hunting for a way to keep the machine, which is mired in a sand trap, alive to see a seventh year. On its Web site, the space agency this week noted there may indeed be such an option.
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NASA space shuttle to carry key space station upgrades 22/12/2009 08:46:00

NASA’s space shuttle Endeavour is closed for the Christmas holiday but plenty of work is going on around it.
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NASA helicopter crash tests flying airbag 11/12/2009 07:44:00

NASA is looking to reduce the deadly impact of helicopter crashes on their pilots and passengers with what the agency calls a high-tech honeycomb airbag known as a deployable energy absorber.
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In pictures: 20 key NASA projects in 2009 09/12/2009 10:47:00

From the space shuttle and Mars mission to water on the moon and ice on the Earth, NASA has its hands in a variety of critical projects
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Virgin Galactic blasts into the great unknown 09/12/2009 05:52:00

Virgin Galactic has rolled out the very cool looking suborbital SpaceShipTwo spacecraft it expects will take thousands of space tourists on a rocket ride to near space.
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Commercial spaceship roll-out revs space tourism 08/12/2009 07:51:00

Looking to keep the hype machine revved as customers wait at least another year, space tourism company Virgin Galactic today will debut the suborbital SpaceShipTwo spacecraft it expects will take the first space tourists on a ride they’ll never forget.