All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below.

BOULDER, Colo. ( Map ) - BOULDER, Colo. , May 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) has named Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. as a winner of the 2008 Goddard Contractor Excellence Award.

The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired on Tuesday, May 20, from the Goldstone, California tracking complex. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and all subsystems are operating normally.

The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired on Tuesday, May 13, from the Madrid, Spain, tracking complex. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and all subsystems are operating normally.

SpaceDev, Inc. announced today that it provided a wide array of hardware and instruments for the Phoenix Lander that successfully landed on Mars’ north arctic plane Sunday, May 25th at 4:53 pm PDT. SpaceDev mechanical systems on the spacecraft included 16 devices supporting the Microscopy, Electrochemistry and Conductivity Analyzer instrument, eight actuators on the Thermal [...]

The first closeup views of the north pole of Mars look fairly familiar. Scientists overseeing the Phoenix Mars Lander say images sent back by the probe show a landscape similar to what can be found in Earth’s permafrost regions.

Sun, May 25, 2008 (5:12 p.m.) NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander has begun a dangerous descent through the Martian atmosphere toward a landing near the north pole.

NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft landed in the northern polar region of Mars Sunday to begin three months of examining a site chosen for its likelihood of having frozen water within reach of the lander’s robotic arm.

Mission controllers for NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander decided Saturday afternoon, May 24, to forgo the second-to-last opportunity for adjusting the spacecraft’s flight path.

US space scientists were to attempt Sunday to land a 420-million-dollar spacecraft near Mars’s frigid north pole, but were concerned that the odds for success were less than 50 percent.