49 stories tagged nasa, newest first.
6 points by ChrisArchitect | 1 comments
New York Times article about Margaret Hamilton's pioneering software work before computer science became male-dominated; the capture shows a bot-block page.
93 points by rkagerer | 64 comments
TWZ article interviewing a former SR-71 engineer about NASA's effort to return SR-71 #844 to flight and its possible uses.
32 points by schoen | 10 comments
Wikipedia article on STS-51-F (Spacelab 2), the 1985 Space Shuttle Challenger mission that performed an abort-to-orbit after an engine failure during ascent.
302 points by ilamont | 353 comments
Aviation Week article reporting that NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help with a secret restart effort.
433 points by Muhammad523 | 349 comments
Science magazine news article reporting that NASA's Mars Sample Return mission has been cancelled; the capture shows only a Cloudflare verification page.
327 points by wglb | 72 comments
Space.com news article on how NASA made power changes so Voyager 2 can keep one of its last instruments running for another year.
415 points by janpot | 256 comments
BBC News live coverage of astronauts being told to return to the International Space Station after sheltering during air leak repairs.
353 points by geerlingguy | 26 comments
An interactive timeline of photos and videos from NASA's Artemis II crewed lunar flyby mission, March–April 2026, filterable by camera and crew-taken shots.
1235 points by areoform | 402 comments
CBS News live updates on NASA's Artemis II crew splashing down in the Pacific off San Diego after their crewed moon mission.
571 points by speckx | 215 comments
Communications of the ACM news article on how NASA engineered a fail-silent, fault-tolerant computer architecture for the Artemis II crewed Moon mission.
910 points by kipi | 222 comments
NASA image gallery titled Lunar Flyby showing photos of the Moon's surface, Earthrise, and an eclipsed Moon from a lunar flyby.
![Screenshot of bbc.com: Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/4/5/ccda23da-ef7a-49f7-b0f8-f4fd2c5d8f62.jpg)
491 points by mooreds | 375 comments
BBC News video showing the Artemis II crew getting their first view of the far side of the Moon.
1016 points by andsoitis | 352 comments
BBC News article about the Artemis II crew capturing a striking photograph of Earth during their mission.
425 points by mooreds | 315 comments
A Bluesky post claiming astronauts called Houston because a spaceship computer was running two instances of Microsoft Outlook and NASA planned to remote in.
1046 points by apitman | 905 comments
NASA live blog providing launch day updates for the crewed Artemis II mission around the Moon, with a live stream of the four-astronaut crew.
755 points by idlewords | 481 comments
Idle Words essay by Maciej Cegłowski arguing that NASA's Artemis II crewed lunar mission is unsafe due to unresolved Orion heat shield problems.
656 points by speckx | 241 comments
Tech Fixated article about Voyager 1, launched in 1977, still operating with 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder for data storage.
1020 points by ashishgupta2209 | 353 comments
Article link about Voyager 1 nearing a distance of one light-day from Earth; the page returned a 503 Service Unavailable error.
403 points by perihelions | 234 comments
TechCrunch article reporting that Blue Origin landed its New Glenn booster for the first time on its second flight while launching a NASA spacecraft.
385 points by voxleone | 1020 comments
CNN article reporting that NASA's acting chief Sean Duffy suggested SpaceX could lose its moon lander contract, saying NASA won't wait for one company.
368 points by acossta | 89 comments
NASA Science article about astronaut Nicole Ayers photographing a gigantic jet, a rare upper-atmospheric lightning phenomenon, from the International Space Station.
549 points by LorenDB | 109 comments
NASA news release in which the acting NASA Administrator reflects on the legacy of Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell following his death.
415 points by ProAm | 521 comments
NPR article republished by KCRW reporting that nearly 4,000 NASA employees chose to leave the agency through a deferred resignation program.
462 points by geox | 253 comments
AP News article reporting that websites hosting major US climate reports, including the National Climate Assessment, have been taken down.
405 points by saikatsg | 534 comments
SpaceX mission page with video of the Crew-9 Dragon capsule's parachute splashdown return to Earth from the International Space Station.
1076 points by ajdude | 237 comments
GitHub repository for pISSStream, a macOS menu bar app that displays the International Space Station's urine tank fill level in real time.
454 points by elsewhen | 248 comments
Smithsonian Magazine news article on Voyager 1 resuming contact with NASA using a backup radio transmitter unused since 1981.
429 points by 0xFACEFEED | 68 comments
NASA Juno mission JunoCam image processing gallery filtered to Perijove 66 images of Jupiter from October 2024.
339 points by JumpCrisscross | 314 comments
AP News article on SpaceX launching a rescue mission for two NASA astronauts stranded on the International Space Station until next year.
345 points by pseudolus | 325 comments
Science magazine news article about a NASA spacecraft mission to investigate whether Europa's salty subsurface ocean could support life; page blocked by Cloudflare check.
485 points by ripjaygn | 652 comments
NASA post on X announcing a live briefing on the Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test following the Agency Test Flight Readiness Review.
401 points by hobermallow | 292 comments
Flying Magazine article on a NASA inspector general report blaming Boeing's mismanagement and inexperienced workforce for delays to the Artemis moon program.
389 points by lode | 529 comments
New York Times article reporting NASA may return Boeing Starliner astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore on a SpaceX vehicle in 2025.
498 points by EndXA | 331 comments
NPR obituary of Allan McDonald, the Morton Thiokol engineer who refused to approve the Challenger launch and exposed the subsequent cover-up.
965 points by dev_tty01 | 198 comments
Space.com news article reporting that NASA's Voyager 1 has resumed returning science data from all four instruments after a technical issue that began in November 2023.
399 points by TMWNN | 197 comments
FOX 13 Seattle news report that Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders was killed when the plane he was piloting crashed in Washington's San Juan Islands.
636 points by helsinkiandrew | 670 comments
BBC News live coverage of the launch of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft on its first crewed mission.
649 points by feross | 452 comments
Maciej Cegłowski's long Idle Words essay critiquing NASA's Artemis lunar program, covering the rocket, capsule, orbit, Gateway, lander, and refueling plans.
406 points by LorenDB | 142 comments
Guardian live blog covering the Intuitive Machines Odysseus spacecraft landing on the moon on 22 February 2024, hailed by Nasa as a giant leap forward.
461 points by foobarbecue | 182 comments
NASA news release announcing the end of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter mission after three years, due to rotor blade damage that prevents further flight.
370 points by Tommstein | 124 comments
Phys.org news article reporting that NASA has regained contact with its Ingenuity mini-helicopter on Mars after a communications loss.
619 points by gmays | 266 comments
NASA Webb Space Telescope news release from December 2023 presenting a new infrared image of Uranus showing its rings and moons.
369 points by wglb | 177 comments
Phys.org article on a NASA study finding a potential energy source and a life-relevant molecule in the plumes of Saturn's moon Enceladus.
1188 points by my12parsecs | 580 comments
CNN news article reporting that NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has stopped sending usable data to Earth due to a computer issue.
414 points by quyleanh | 208 comments
BGR article reporting that NASA sent a software update to a spacecraft (Voyager) about 12 billion miles from Earth.
382 points by jonathankoren | 214 comments
NASA news release (Sept 21, 2023) reporting that the Webb telescope detected carbon dioxide on Europa's surface likely originating from its subsurface ocean.
393 points by mutant_glofish | 82 comments
NASA JPL mission update from July 2023 about a pause in communications with the Voyager 2 spacecraft, later updated with restored contact.
425 points by belter | 397 comments
The Register article reporting that NASA accidentally pointed Voyager 2's antenna two degrees away from Earth, cutting off communication with the probe.
347 points by BerislavLopac | 218 comments
Independent news article reporting that Makenzie Lystrup, new director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, took her oath on Carl Sagan's 'Pale Blue Dot' instead of a Bible.