SpaceX is revolutionizing the exploration of space and the potential for global internet. Compared to NASA, it is a fraction of the cost and appreciably more efficient.

NASA and SpaceX are targeting mid-January for the launch of Firefly Aerospace's Ghost Riders in the Sky mission to the lunar surface.

The next crew rotation mission to the International Space Station (ISS), SpaceX's Crew-10, has been delayed to no earlier than late March 2025, NASA announced on Tuesday (Dec. 17).

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson says he's optimistic the Trump administration will support the space agency's agenda.

The regulator issued a modified launch and reentry license that allows launching multiple flights under the vehicle’s Flight 7 configuration and mission profile.

NASA administrators are also accountable to elected officials. Administrators are appointed by the president but must be confirmed by the Senate. Congress has a great deal to say about the budget that NASA gets each year. They also must authorize major programs, like the Artemis program, which aims to return the U.S. and its partners to the moon.

The launch of NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 to the International Space Station has been deferred to March 2025 to finalize a new Dragon spacecraft. The crew, training in Houston, includes representatives from NASA,

The Starliner astronauts have had their homecoming delayed yet again after NASA postponed the launch of the mission whose crew would replace them.

The transition team has been grappling with an agency that has a superfluity of field centers—ten spread across the United States, as well as a formal headquarters in Washington, DC—and large, slow-moving programs that cost a lot of money and have been slow to deliver results.

NASA’s SPHEREx observatory will lend insight into what happened after the Big Bang, measure the glow of galaxies near and far, and search the Milky Way for building blocks of life. NASA and SpaceX are planning to launch the SPHEREx astrophysics observatory in late February 2025.

Space missions to the moon, Mars and beyond often get the most attention, but NASA's Near Space Network does a lot of heavy lifting for humankind's reach for the stars.