WASHINGTON — The 2008 edition of NASA’s annual Spinoff publication celebrates the agency’s 50th anniversary and highlights 50 new examples of how NASA technology is being put to use in everyday life.

Washington — By the time NASA unveiled its 2008 budget request Feb. 5, the 600-page document — the product of months of negotiations with the White House — was already outdated. Several days earlier, ...

Because of weather problems caused by tropical storms and hurricanes, NASA is being forced to delay, by two days each, the final two space shuttle missions for 2008: STS-125 and STS-126. Officials ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- A NASA/university team has published the first global satellite maps of the key greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in Earth's mid-troposphere, an area about 8 kilometers, or 5 miles, above ...

An instrument to study the extreme environments of the universe has been given the "green light" from NASA Headquarters. The High-Resolution Soft X-Ray Spectrometer (SXS) was one of the two science ...

2008 was a mixed year for spaceflight. China carried out its first spacewalk, India sent a probe to the Moon, and several private space vehicles took flight for the first time. But the news was ...

NASA is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary in 2008 but, more importantly, it conducted many different discovery, exploratory, and scientific projects over these last twelve months. From designing ...