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Roscosmos launches Russian rocket to resupply International Space Station

By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro - The Washington Times

In this image taken from video, a Soyuz-U rocket blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Friday, July 3, 2015. The unmanned cargo ship is heading to the International Space Station, whose crew is anxiously awaiting it after the successive failures of two previous supply missions. (NASA TV via AP)

Russian supply ship launched to International Space Station

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center is working on a plan to send a specialized drone to Mars. The space agency plans to send the aircraft to the Red Planet by the 2020s. (Image: NASA) ** FILE **

Mars drone plan hatched by NASA; aircraft will capture high-resolution images for 20 miles

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Sunday, June 28, 2015. The rocket carrying supplies to the International Space Station broke apart shortly after liftoff. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

McCain: SpaceX explosion no reason to ease Russian rocket ban

By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro - The Washington Times

NASA used rapid prototyping to build its Greased Lightning (GL-10) drone, which has 10 engines and can fly like a helicopter or an plane. (Image: NASA)

NASA’s ‘Greased Lightning’ drone ideal for endurance surveillance, can fly like helicopter or plane

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

SpaceX's Dragon capsule launches, Wednesday, May 6, 2015, from Cape Canaveral, Fla. SpaceX fired the mock-up capsule to test the new, super-streamlined launch escape system for astronauts. (Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel via AP)

SpaceX capsule soars with dummy in 1st test of crew escape

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

This artist's rendering provided by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory shows the sunshade on the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (Messenger) around the planet Mercury. The sunshade shields the spacecraft's instruments from heat and solar radiation. (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory via AP) Image converted using ifftoany

NASA spacecraft to impact planet Mercury on Thursday

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

(Image: NASA)

Mars rover Opportunity marks milestone marathon

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by NASA, astronaut Scott Kelly sits inside a Soyuz simulator at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC), Wednesday, March 4, 2015 in Star City, Russia. On Saturday, March 28, 2015, Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will travel to the International Space Station to begin a year-long mission living in orbit. (AP Photo/NASA, Bill Ingalls)

What to pack for year in space? A ‘superhero utility belt’

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

Life there, once upon a time? NASA scientists say a primitive ocean on Mars held more water than Earth's Arctic Ocean. (NASA/GSFC)

Astrobiology: Library of Congress to explore the implications of extraterrestrial life

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

This Feb. 19, 2015, file image provided by NASA shows the dwarf planet Ceres, taken by the space agency's Dawn spacecraft from a distance of nearly 29,000 miles (46,000 kilometers). On Friday, March 6, 2015, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft arrives at the mysterious dwarf planet located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter after a nearly eight-year journey. (AP Photo/NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA, File)

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft moves in on dwarf planet Ceres

By Alicia Chang - Associated Press

In this image from NASA television astronaut Terry Virts is seen during the third spacewalk outside the International Space Station Sunday March 1, 2015. (AP Photo/NASA-TV)

Spacewalking astronauts finish extensive, tricky cable job

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

NASA is looking for practical creativity, such as the design of this intricately stitched astronaut glove that offers a broad range of motion for space missions. (Final Frontier Design)

Ted Southern, Brooklyn artist, to design NASA spacesuit for civilian travelers

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

NASA Partnership with Nissan Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

KEN BLACKWELL: NASA’s odd partnership with Nissan over U.S. automakers

By Ken Blackwell

FILE - In a Thursday, May 29, 2014 file photo, the SpaceX Dragon V2 spaceship is unveiled at its headquarters, in Hawthorne, Calif. SpaceX and Boeing said Monday, Jan. 26, 2015, that they are on track to carry out their first manned test flights to the International Space Station in 2017. NASA expects to save millions of dollars in launch costs, once its commercial crew program starts flying. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Boeing, SpaceX will beat Russia on price for astronaut rides

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 1, 2014 file photo, Amanda Ouellet wipes her face with a cold wet towel to cool off while working outside holding an advertising sign in Las Vegas. Federal science officials announced Friday that for the third time in a decade, the globe sizzled to the hottest year on record. Both the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA calculated that in 2014 the world had its hottest year in 135 years of record-keeping. Earlier, the Japanese weather agency and an independent group out of University of California Berkeley also measured 2014 as the hottest on record. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

The heat is on; NOAA, NASA say 2014 warmest year on record

By Seth Borenstein - Associated Press

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft stands ready for launch from complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla. on Monday, Jan. 5, 2015. The mission will deliver equipment, food and other supplies to the International Space Station. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)

SpaceX calls off rocket launch to the International Space Station

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

This May 14, 2012 photo provided by NASA Langley shows the inflatable structure of a Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator, background, made up of high-tech fabric rings, similar to those seen in the foreground, at NASA Langley research center in Hampton, Va. When Orbital Sciences resumes sending supplies to the International Space Station, its Antares rocket will carry an experimental inflatable spacecraft technology that engineers at NASA's Langley Research Center have been working on for more than a decade. (AP Photo/ NASA Langley, Kathy Barnstorff)

NASA explores inflatable spacecraft technology

By BROCK VERGAKIS - Associated Press

In this image provided by NASA, following splashdown of the Orion module, U.S. Navy crews from the USS Anchorage begin recovering the parachutes while other teams begin safing the spacecraft as it floats in the Pacific Ocean, Friday, Dec. 5, 2014. Earlier in the day, Orion made a dramatic test flight that took it to a zenith height of 3,600 miles and ushered in a new era of human exploration aiming for Mars. (AP Photo/NASA)

NASA’s Orion a success: ‘There’s your new spacecraft, America!’

Associated Press

A NASA Orion capsule on top of a Delta IV rocket sits on the pad at Complex 37 B at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014, at Cape Canaveral, Fla. High wind gusts and a sticky valve forced NASA to scrubbed the early morning liftoff. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

NASA launches new Orion spacecraft and new era

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press