5.25.2012 - NASA Administrator Charles Bolden congratulates Expedition 31 crew members aboard the International Space Station following their successful grappling and berthing to the orbiting laboratory of SpaceX’s uncrewed Dragon capsule on May 25, 2012.
5.25.2012 - Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 31 Flight Engineer Don Pettit of NASA and European Space Agency Flight Engineer Andre Kuipers used the station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm to grapple and berth SpaceX’s Dragon cargo craft to the Earth-facing port of the Harmony module May 25, three days after the spacecraft was launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on a history-making mission as the first commercial vehicle to deliver cargo to the outpost.
5.22.2012 - On Tuesday, May 22, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Dragon capsule on a demonstration flight towards the International Space Station.
05.07.2012 - On May 5, the 2012 U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame ceremony was held at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
4.30.12 - Astrophysicist, shuttle astronaut, and current NASA Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate John Grunsfeld was interviewed April 27 on National Public Radio's "Science Friday" show with host Ira Flatow.
4.30.2012 - On Friday, April 27 Enterprise, the first NASA space shuttle was transported atop a 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft from Dulles International Airport, near Washington, D.C. to New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. Enterprise eventually will be displayed at New York’s Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum.
04.20.12 - NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) with space shuttle Discovery mounted atop flew, approximately 1,500 feet above various parts of the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area on Tuesday, April 17.
04.20.12 - On April 19, NASA’s space shuttle Discovery was officially transferred to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum during a ceremony at the museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia.
03.29.12 - The Buzz Lightyear action figure that served 15 months aboard the International Space Station before returning to Earth on Space Shuttle Discovery in September, 2009, is retiring at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
03.29.12 - NASA HOLDS TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE FOR MEDIA ON CAPITOL HILL On Wednesday March 28, NASA held a technology showcase for members of the media in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington. "