NASA spacecraft gears up to rendezvous with comet Hartley 2 Five years after a NASA spacecraft bombarded a comet, it will visit another one Thursday. This time, there won’t be celestial fireworks. Speeding at 27,000 miles per hour, the Deep Impact craft instead will swing by a small comet, passing…
Supreme Court set to hear privacy case on NASA’s background checks How much information is too much when it comes to security at a government installation in a post-9/11 world? The Supreme Court will tackle that question Tuesday when it hears arguments over whether the government went too far in…