"If you lose that history, you are going to make the same mistakes again." The post NASA Forced to Shut Down Largest Library, ...

NASA is seeking to hire a ‘director of space sustainability’ who will make sure the entire agency is preserving space even as it becomes more crowded. The word sustainability has become somewhat ...

On March 8, a piece of space debris plunged through a roof in Naples, FL, ripped through two floors and (fortunately) missed the son of homeowner Alejandro Otero. On Tuesday, NASA confirmed the ...

(CNN) — A piece of garbage jettisoned from the International Space Station unexpectedly survived a fiery reentry from orbit last month and pierced the roof of a home in Florida, according to NASA.

NASA's 5,800 pounds of space junk was supposed to orbit Earth for a couple of years before "burning up harmlessly in the atmosphere." That did not go as planned, and a Florida family received an ...

NASA is ready to pay up to $3 million (€2.74 million) in cash prizes for innovative ideas on how to recycle material waste created by its space missions. As space missions, especially future ...

"I will be sending my bill in the mail -- space trash disposal." July 23, 2007 — -- NASA astronauts at the International Space Station literally took out the trash today when they got rid of two ...

When it comes to human spaceflight, what goes up does indeed need to come down, typically at significant expense on both legs of the journey. A team of NASA engineers and scientists thinks there is a ...

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