NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) Space Systems of Louisville, Colo., completed its first major, comprehensive safety review of its Dream Chaser Space System.

The Orion crew module is being put through a series of tests that simulate the loads the spacecraft would experience during its mission.

As NASA marked the anniversary of the president's exploration vision, news media were updated on the Orion spacecraft that could take astronauts to an asteroid.

Boeing successfully completed a preliminary design review of the component that would connect the company's new crew capsule to its rocket.

For more than a year, NASA's crawler-transporter 2 has been undergoing a major tuneup in the Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building.