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  The associate administrator for Space Operations talks about his early NASA experience and the collaborative “miracle” of the International Space Station.

This space-station view of Los Angeles was taken by Astronaut Donald Pettit, who lived aboard the International Space Station for five and a half months. The city is defined by yellow-orange, sodium-vapor-lit streets in north-south, east-west grids. In between the main streets it is relatively dark due to the design of street lighting that minimizes […]

Don Cohen, Managing Editor   At the NASA Project Management Challenge in Galveston, Texas, this past February, Jean-Jacques Dordain, director general of the European Space Agency, predicted that global collaboration will define future space exploration.

By Laurence Prusak   One of my father’s heroes—and he didn’t have many—was Albert Einstein. He often regaled me with stories of the great physicist.

By Ed Hoffman   Space exploration has always been international. NASA’s first international mission dates back nearly fifty years, and the agency has had more than three thousand agreements with over one hundred countries in its history.

NASA in the News   New observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory provide evidence for powerful “winds” blowing away from the vicinity of a supermassive black hole in a nearby galaxy.

By Don Cohen and Matthew Kohut   The Academy’s first Knowledge Forum brought together people from several industries and countries.

By Kerry Ellis   NASA is working with other agencies to prepare for ever-increasing air traffic.

By Jean-Jacques Dordain   The director general of the European Space Agency says the future of space exploration depends on global cooperation.