On Thursday, NASA effectively examined a system, which would let astronauts to get away during rocket-launch emergencies, the first abort system developed in over 40 years.

The latest reports discovered revealed that there was hardly any telescope that could compete with Hubble.

NASA’s second balloon science campaign for this month - featuring the launch of a gigantic 400-foot unmanned balloon telescope from a remote site at the Alice Springs Balloon Launching Centre, near Alice Springs town in the northern territory of Australia – ended in a debacle on Thursday.

A multi-million pound NASA space balloon, which was carrying expensive and sensitive scientific equipment, hit a car, during takeoff in the Australian outback. It narrowly missed spectators standing in close proximity.

In nascent discovery, water ice and organic molecules have been found on the surface of an asteroid. This is the first time that such a discovery has been made.

Researchers were able to have small look at the ice on 24 Themis. This is the largest asteroid in the group that is located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

Ken Larson made a presentation on NASA’s future at the Kennedy Space Center, on Monday. Ken Larson shared that the future looked good. His job is to motivate the coming generation as much as he was inspired by his father, who was a reporter who made friends with the first astronauts, as well as by his grandmother.

It has been reported that NASA has unveiled a fresh recording of the Observatory. The release took place at the 20th Anniversary of Hubble.

It has been reported that the picture reveals a giant column of gas in a hotbed of new stars, with twirling clouds of gas ahead of a lustrous red and blue locale.

NASA is working on the plans to build a new vessel which can be utilized as an emergency escape by the astronauts. The proposed vessel will be send to the International Space Station.

Senators from New York are urging NASA to hand over one of the retiring space shuttles to their city. They propose that Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum can be an ideal destination for the spacecraft.

It will be showcased to millions of visitors who visit the city every year. It can also stimulate interest in space exploration and scientific research.

Astronauts from some of America’s unforgettable space missions are taking the matter with President Obama’s projected NASA budget, which lays emphasis on robotic space investigations over human space probe.