As the associate administrator, Shin will be responsible for managing the agency's aeronautics research portfolio and guiding its strategic direction.

NASA will hold a media briefing on Thursday, Jan. 24, at 12:30 p.m. EST, to discuss the agency's Earth science program and preview major activities planned for 2008.

On Friday, Jan. 25, NASA Deputy Administrator Shana Dale will deliver a keynote address at 8:45 a.m. PST, at the Museum of Flight in Seattle.

Covering 50 years of NASA history, the calendar has been distributed to schools nationwide.

High school students were challenged to create concepts that could accelerate the personal spaceflight industry.

SOFIA has passed a significant mission milestone with the completion of the first phase of experimental flight tests, which confirmed the structural integrity and performance of the modified 747SP aircraft.

NASA Television will provide live coverage of the Astronauts Memorial Foundation's remembrance service honoring space shuttle Columbia's STS-107 crew.

NASA is looking for a fast set of wheels. The 15th annual Great Moonbuggy Race is set for April 4-5.

NASA's Constellation Program has released a broad agency announcement for study proposals to evaluate human landing craft concepts for exploring the moon.

At a Tuesday ceremony at the National Federation of the Blind, NASA unveiled a new book that brings majestic images taken by its Great Observatories to the fingertips of the blind.

Cameras and sensors that will look for the presence of water on the moon have completed validation tests and been shipped to the manufacturer of NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite.

NASA updated its National Aviation Operations Monitoring Service website Monday to add a Microsoft Office Excel formatted version of previously posted files containing pilot survey responses.

On Thursday, Jan. 17, the chairman and chief executive officer of Google, Eric Schmidt, will be the featured speaker for part of a lecture series honoring NASA's 50th anniversary.

NASA will hold a media briefing at 1 p.m. CST Tuesday, Jan. 15, with the next resident crew of the International Space Station and a South Korean spaceflight participant.

NASA has updated assignments for International Space Station expedition crews. The updates reflect changes in the launch schedule for space shuttle missions that will transport rotating crew members.

NASA announced Feb. 7 as the target launch date for shuttle Atlantis' STS-122 mission to the International Space Station and mid-March for the launch of Endeavour on STS-123.

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA's next mission to the moon, is in the midst of integration and testing at Goddard Space Flight Center.

On Monday, Jan. 14, a pioneering NASA spacecraft will be the first to visit Mercury in almost 33 years when it soars over the planet to explore and snap close-up images of never-before-seen terrain.

For those who set fitness goals as part of their New Year's resolutions, NASA astronauts who have lived aboard the International Space Station have a few tips to face the challenge.

Lisa J. Porter, NASA's associate administrator of the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, announced Wednesday her decision to leave the agency, effective Feb. 1.