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(Reuters) - NASA said hackers stole employee credentials and gained access to mission-critical projects last year in 13 major network breaches that could compromise U.S. national security.

2012-03-02T18:52:14ZReuters US Online Report Internet NewsBy Staff Reportertag:www.blnz.com,2009:2012/02/19/Fifty_years_after_Glenn_flight_b037

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Fifty years after John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth, NASA no longer has the ability to fly astronauts in space, a decision Glenn lays squarely on the shoulders of the Bush administration.

2012-02-19T15:30:04ZReuters US Online Report Science News Irene Klotztag:www.blnz.com,2009:2012/02/14/Obama_wants_21_billion_NASAs_5e92

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's proposed 2013 budget for NASA boosts spending at the Kennedy Space Center, which bore the brunt of job layoffs at the end of the space shuttle program last year, the center director said on Tuesday.

2012-02-15T01:57:17ZReuters US Online Report Science News Irene Klotztag:www.blnz.com,2009:2012/02/13/Race_find_life_under_Antarctic_f6aa

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The race is on to discover life in the most remote and extreme environment known on Earth.

2012-02-13T14:03:37ZReuters US Online Report Science News Alissa de Carbonneltag:www.blnz.com,2009:2012/01/26/Kepler_telescope_team_finds_solar_8996

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has found 11 new planetary systems, including one with five planets all orbiting closer to their parent star than Mercury circles the Sun, scientists said on Thursday.

2012-01-26T22:44:14ZReuters US Online Report Science News Irene Klotztag:www.blnz.com,2009:2012/01/19/Rocket_with_military_satellite_launches_e1bd

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - An unmanned heavy-lift Delta 4 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Thursday to put a high-speed broadband communications satellite into orbit for the U.S. military.

2012-01-20T01:31:09ZReuters US Online Report Science NewsBy Staff Reportertag:www.blnz.com,2009:2011/12/13/Microsoft_co-founder_Allen_launches_space_3dec

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen is planning to build a spaceship that could replace the Space Shuttle and put paying passengers into orbit this decade.

2011-12-13T22:16:55ZReuters US Online Report Science NewsBill Rigbytag:www.blnz.com,2009:2011/11/26/NASA_science_rover_launches_Mars_e23d

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - An unmanned Atlas 5 rocket carrying a $2.5 billion NASA Mars probe lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Saturday.

2011-11-26T15:11:52ZReuters US Online Report Science NewsREUTERStag:www.blnz.com,2009:2011/11/26/NASA_science_rover_launches_Mars_94cb

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - An unmanned Atlas 5 rocket carrying a $2.5 billion NASA Mars probe lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Saturday.

2011-11-26T15:04:36ZReuters US Online Report Science NewsREUTERStag:www.blnz.com,2009:2011/11/24/Corrected_NASA_rover_scout_lifes_1e01

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2011-11-24T13:33:36ZReuters US Online Report Science NewsREUTERStag:www.blnz.com,2009:2011/10/11/NASAs_space_shuttle_operations_chief_9a0b

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Deputy space shuttle program manager and former flight director Mike Moses is leaving NASA to oversee operations for Virgin Galactic, the commercial spaceflight company owned by Richard Branson's Virgin Group, the company said on Tuesday.

2011-10-12T00:04:35ZReuters US Online Report Science NewsIrene Klotztag:www.blnz.com,2009:2011/10/06/Astronaut_pays_tribute_visionary_Steve_9fc1

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - News of the death of Apple's iconic leader, Steve Jobs, made it to the International Space Station, where a trio of astronauts are living, working -- and listening to music on iPods.

2011-10-06T15:55:02ZReuters US Online Report Technology NewsREUTERStag:www.blnz.com,2009:2011/09/24/Six-ton_NASA_science_satellite_falls_349e

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A six-ton NASA science satellite crashed to Earth on Saturday, leaving a mystery about where a ton of space debris may have landed.

2011-09-25T13:38:36ZReuters US Online Report Top NewsIrene Klotztag:www.blnz.com,2009:2011/07/21/NASAs_Final_Four_astronauts_close_c921

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA downsized the crew for the final flight of its shuttle program as a safety precaution.

2011-07-21T09:06:24ZReuters US Online Report Science NewsIrene Klotztag:www.blnz.com,2009:2011/07/07/Shuttles_blow_Floridas_Space_Coast_bdb6

TITUSVILLE, Florida (Reuters) - The end of the U.S. space shuttle program is the end of the line for Tom Brown and other workers like him at the Kennedy Space Center in central Florida. He is about to join the ranks of the unemployed.

2011-07-08T02:50:40ZReuters US Online Report Science NewsTom Browntag:www.blnz.com,2009:2011/06/28/NASA_clears_last_space_shuttle_f257

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA managers cleared space shuttle Atlantis on Tuesday for a July 8 launch, approving it for a cargo run to the International Space Station and the final flight in the 30-year-old shuttle program.

2011-06-28T22:23:48ZReuters US Online Report Science NewsIrene Klotztag:www.blnz.com,2009:2011/05/16/Space_shuttle_Endeavour_blasts_from_7f67

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - The space shuttle Endeavour blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday on its final voyage which will deliver a pioneering physics experiment to the International Space Station.

2011-05-16T13:02:47ZReuters US Online Report Science NewsREUTERStag:www.blnz.com,2009:2011/04/28/NASA_chief_says_Giffords_feisty_6709

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden said on Thursday he was "really happy" that recuperating Representative Gabrielle Giffords was in Florida to watch shuttle Endeavour's launch on Friday.

2011-04-28T22:49:53ZReuters US Online Report Domestic NewsIrene Klotztag:www.blnz.com,2009:2011/04/18/NASA_awards_funds_develop_commercial_fa3c

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA divided up more than $269 million on Monday among several companies vying to build commercial spaceships to carry astronauts to the International Space Station, the space agency said.

2011-04-18T22:54:54ZReuters US Online Report Domestic NewsREUTERStag:www.blnz.com,2009:2011/04/18/Boeing_Sierra_Nevada_SpaceX_NASA_fa3c

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA divided up more than $269 million on Monday among several companies vying to build commercial spaceships to carry astronauts to the International Space Station, the space agency said.

2011-04-18T22:54:54ZReuters US Online Report Science NewsREUTERS