February 7, 2012 / 6:42 p.m. CT (0042 GMT Feb 8) Penny payload: A Lincoln penny is now on its way to Mars, NASA announced Tuesday. The 1-cent piece, a 1909 "VDB" penny, was attached to a smartphone-size plaque on the Mars rover Curiosity to help calibrat

Those who "design 'em, build 'em, fix 'em, fly 'em and those who manage those who do those things" will be recognized when the big do is held April 28 at the American Airlines Hangar 80 at the Tulsa International Airport. Plan to see women from the milit

February 1, 2012 / 3:03 p.m. CT (2103 GMT) : The team behind NASA's first mission to the last (dwarf) planet started a petition campaign on Wednesday to have the U.S. Postal Service honor its probe with a postage stamp. Set to flyby Pluto in July 2015, N

Research In Motion has launched a new service that extends Microsoft Exchange Online cloud services to BlackBerry smartphones, allowing customers to manage their BlackBerry deployments in the cloud. According to the NASA article “Legendary Astronaut Shan

HOUSTON - A NASA veteran is calling it quits after more than 30 years on the job. Shannon Lucid, who flew into space five times, was part of the first class of NASA astronauts to include women, NASA says. From August 1991 to June 2007, Lucid spent more t

January 31, 2012 / 3:02 p.m. CT (2102 GMT) Departure: Shannon Lucid, who more than three decades ago became one of the first women to join NASA's astronaut corps, has retired from the space agency. A veteran of five spaceflights, Lucid spent more than 22