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In this Tuesday, June 18, 2019, photo, Bill Weppner, a former NASA flight controller who worked on the space program's Apollo missions, talks about his experiences at the Germantown library in Germantown, Tenn. (Joe Rondone/The Commercial Appeal via AP)

NASA flight controller shares memories of Apollo missions

By CORINNE KENNEDY - Associated Press

Report: Jet Propulsion Laboratory hacked for 10 months

Associated Press

FILE - In this image provided by NASA, astronaut Buzz Aldrin poses for a photograph beside the U.S. flag deployed on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969. A new poll shows most Americans prefer focusing on potential asteroid impacts over a return to the moon. The survey by The Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research was released Thursday, June 20, one month before the 50th anniversary of Neil Armstrong and Aldrin’s momentous lunar landing. (Neil A. Armstrong/NASA via AP)

AP-NORC poll: Asteroid watch more urgent than Mars trip

By MARCIA DUNN and EMILY SWANSON - Associated Press

Lockheed Martin has mastered the craft of shaping quieter sonic booms. The defense giant's engineering advances prompted it to release concept designs for a new supersonic airliner. (Image: Lockheed Martin)

Lockheed Martin eyes ‘next level’ supersonic airliner after hitting sonic boom ‘sweet spot’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

According to a government watchdog, NASA underplayed costs associated with the Artemis program, the effort to put astronauts on the lunar south pole. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

NASA hid costs of Artemis program, says government watchdog

By Dan Boylan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 29, 2013, file photo, a worker helps monitor water pumping pressure and temperature, at an oil and natural gas extraction site, outside Rifle, on the Western Slope of Colorado. A Trump administration national security official has sought help from advisers to a think tank that disavows climate change to challenge widely accepted scientific findings on global warming, according to his emails. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

Emails: Trump official pressed NASA on climate science

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and SETH BORENSTEIN - Associated Press

The moon passes into the earth's shadow during a lunar eclipse as seen in Gauhati, India, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

NASA reveals estimated cost of Artemis moon program

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Reno streets closing as NASA resumes urban drone testing

Associated Press

E Street SW in front of NASA headquarters is renamed Hidden Figures Way on Wednesday, June 12, 2019, in honor of the black women whose mathematical computations contributed to the success of the space program in the 1960s and '70s. (Ximena Bustillo / The Washington Times)

NASA honors ‘Hidden Figures’ heroes

By Ximena Bustillo - The Washington Times

This photo provided by NASA shows an image on Mars that its spacecraft called InSight acquired using its robotic arm-mounted, Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC) after it landed on the planet on Monday, Nov. 26, 2018. The NASA spacecraft designed to drill down into Mars' interior landed on the planet Monday after a perilous, supersonic plunge through its red skies, setting off jubilation among scientists who had waited in white-knuckle suspense for confirmation to arrive across 100 million miles of space. (NASA via AP) ** FILE **

Donald Trump tells NASA: Focus on Mars, defense, science instead of moon plans

By Bailey Vogt - The Washington Times

Virginia students to chat live with space station astronaut

Associated Press

In this May 21, 2019 photo, two drones fly above Lake Street in downtown Reno, Nev., on, as part of a NASA simulation to test emerging technology that someday will be used to manage travel of hundreds of thousands of commercial, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) delivering packages. It marked the first time such tests have been conducted in an urban setting. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)

NASA’s first-of-kind tests look to manage drones in cities

By SCOTT SONNER - Associated Press

FILE - In this November 1969 photo provided by NASA, Apollo 12 mission Commander Charles P. &quot;Pete&quot; Conrad stands on the moon's surface. He was the third man to walk on the moon. On Tuesday, May 14, 2019, NASA's chief says the Trump administration's proposed $1.6 billion budget boost is a &quot;good start&quot; for putting astronauts back on the moon. (AP Photo/NASA)

NASA: Budget boost ‘good start’ to put astronauts on moon

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 3, 2017, file photo Education Secretary Betsy DeVos speaks during a school choice event in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. Education advocates say a Trump administration plan to use federal Pell Grant money to fund space exploration would jeopardize aid for future college students and could trigger a budgeting crisis within a few years. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump faces backlash over plan to dip into Pell reserves

By COLLIN BINKLEY - Associated Press

Jeff Bezos speaks in front of a model of Blue Origin's Blue Moon lunar lander, Thursday, May 9, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Amazon’s Bezos says he’ll send a spaceship to the moon

By SETH BORENSTEIN - Associated Press

New Mexico has plan for assessing damage at NASA site

Associated Press

Dartmouth students win Mars greenhouse NASA challenge

Associated Press

Feds: Worker falsified pollution test results at NASA site

Associated Press

In this Sunday, March 3, 2019 file photo provided by NASA, the SpaceX Crew Dragon is pictured about 20 meters (66 feet) away from the International Space Station's Harmony module. Officials say SpaceX's new capsule for astronauts suffered an &quot;anomaly&quot; during a routine engine test firing in Florida, causing smoke to be seen for miles. Forty-fifth Space Wing Spokesman Jim Williams tells Florida Today that the anomaly happened Saturday, April 20, 2019 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station while the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule was undergoing a &quot;static test fire.&quot; (NASA via AP, File)

SpaceX suffers serious setback with crew capsule accident

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, March 14, 2019 file photo, U.S. astronaut Christina Koch, member of the main crew of the expedition to the International Space Station (ISS), speaks with her relatives through a safety glass prior the launch of Soyuz MS-12 space ship at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. Koch will remain on board until February, approaching but not quite breaking Scott Kelly’s 340-day U.S. record. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, Pool)

US astronaut to spend 11 months in space, set female record

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press