New Engineering Design Challenge Builds On Great Moonbuggy Race

NASA is debuting a new engineering design challenge to engage students worldwide in the next phase of human space exploration. The NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge is a more complex follow-on to the successful NASA Great Moonbuggy Race. The competition is open to high school and college students and challenges them to create a vehicle designed to traverse the simulated surface of another world.

NROL-39 Mission Boosted From Vandenberg AFB Thursday Night

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) lifted off from Space Launch Complex-3 at Vandenberg AFB in California on Dec. 5 at 2314 PST. Designated NROL-39, the mission is in support of national defense. 

Plans Call For The Spacecraft To Use Hydrogen Peroxide As Rocket Fuel To Propel Scientific And Commercial Payloads From Earth Orbit To The Moon

Privately funded lunar resources company Moon Express has unveiled its "MX-1" lunar lander spacecraft, calling it a "breakthrough robotic space vehicle capable of a multitude of applications including delivering scientific and commercial payloads to the Moon at a fraction of the cost of conventional approaches."

America’s First Woman In Space To Be One Of First Two Women To Receive The Honor

The Stanford School of Engineering has named Sally Ride as one of six people selected as this year’s Stanford Engineering Heroes, an honor recognizing Stanford scientists who have advanced the course of human, social and economic progress through engineering and science.

Congratulates SpaceX On Successful Launch

The Commercial Spaceflight Federation congratulates SpaceX for the successful launch of their Falcon 9 v1.1 launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida and for the deployment of the SES-8 telecommunications satellite in its intended geostationary orbit.