Colorado isn't usually considered a "space state", like Florida, Texas, or California, but the state has a large and thriving government and commercial space sector.
The new director of NASA's Kennedy Space Center hopes to diversify the work performed there to mitigate the job losses expected when the space shuttle retires.
NASA's Swift spacecraft has detected the most distant gamma ray burst ever, at a distance of 12.8 billion light-years, meaning that it dates back to less than a billion years after the Big Bang.
Alliant Techsystems and United Space Alliance have put a temporary halt to a dispute that at one point led USA to announce that it would stop working with ATK on the first stage of the Ares 1 launch vehicle.