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Professor Felix Harcourt talked about how conspiracy theories about UFOs have shaped America culture. He began in the late 1940s and described how public opinion about extraterrestrials…

Melissa Sevigny talked about her book, Under Desert Skies: How Tucson Mapped the Way to the Moon and Planets. Ms. Sevigny is a science and technology reporter for KNAU (Arizona Public…

Leland Melvin talked about his book, Chasing Space: An Astronaut’s Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances.

Acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot testified at a hearing on his agency’s fiscal year 2018 budget. Members questioned him about cuts to programs in areas such as education, earth science…

Author and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson talked about his life and career and responds to viewer phone calls and tweets. Mr. Tyson, the director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York…

Rod Pyle talked about his book Amazing Stories of the Space Age: True Tales of Nazis in Orbit, Soldiers on the Moon, Orphaned Martian Robots, and Other Fascinating Accounts from the Annals…

President Trump made remarks and signed an executive order reestablishing the National Space Council. Vice President Pence spoke briefly at the beginning of the event and introduced the…

Ted Spitzmiller talked about his book The History of Human Space Flight, in which he looks at the programs and technology that led to the possibility of space travel, from balloon flight to…

Jeffrey Kluger talked about his book, Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon, about NASA’s first successful manned mission to orbit the moon. Mr. Kluger is the…

Researchers from NASA and its partner universities were panelists speaking at a briefing on the science behind the total solar eclipse expected on August 21, 2017, the first total solar…

Vice President Mike Pence delivered remarks at NASA’s Johnson Space Center to welcome the next class of astronaut candidates. The vice president talked about the administration’s effort to…

The House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces held a hearing on U.S. military space assets and potential national security threats. General John Raymond, commander of Air Force…

Professor Chris Impey talked about his book, Beyond: Our Future in Space, about the next generation of space exploration. This interview, conducted on the campus of the University of Arizona, is…

Astrophysicists, aerospace engineers, and space policy experts were among the speakers at the fifth annual conference on human exploration of Mars hosted by Explore Mars, a non-profit…

President Trump congratulated Peggy Whitson on setting a record by spending 535 cumulative days at the International Space Station. He also talked about the possibility of a manned mission…

Five scientists from NASA and the space agency’s research partners announced the discovery of seven Earth-like exoplanets orbiting a nearby star during a news conference at NASA…

Julian Guthrie talked about her book How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight, in which she reports on SpaceShipOne, the first…

Dava Sobel talked about her book, The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars, about women who worked for the Harvard College Observatory, studying…

President Trump gave his weekly internet address. He talked about his signing of a measure allowing $19 billion in spending for NASA.

President Trump signed a NASA appropriations bill for fiscal year 2017. Several of the bill’s cosponsors were there to witness the signing, including Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX), Marco Rubio…