The famed astrophysicist Carl Sagan and former President Jimmy Carter shared a fundamental understanding about the fragility ...

Carter is hardly remembered as a champion of NASA. But he saved the space shuttle program, and his words that have been ...

Carter made few contributions to NASA history, but a key decision helped shape 30 years of U.S. spaceflight. The ...

Former President Jimmy Carter's voice and legacy go far beyond Earth to live forever on two gold-plated copper discs, in ...

Kraft recalls laying bare the budget jeopardy faced by the shuttle. “We were totally incapable of meeting any sort of flight ...

Though Carter never claimed to have spotted aliens or a flying saucer — to him this was literally an unknown object in the air — people snickered and mistook his UFO sighting as such. Skeptics, who ...

President Jimmy Carter's impact on the U.S. space program honored in Florida where so many of the nation's space ambitions ...

President Carter was attached in 1977 to the Voyager spacecrafts that are currently floating through interstellar space.

NASA and United Airlines have lead tributes from the aerospace industry after it was announced that former President Jimmy ...

By many accounts of those who served at NASA during Jimmy Carter's administration, he was viewed as the least supportive of U ...

Mourners carry a coffin containing the remains of former US President Jimmy Carter out of the Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Georgia, before it is placed in a hearse on Jan. 4.