NASA

NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover successfully touched down on the red planet yesterday. The Green Bank Telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia helped the lander stay in touch with Earth on the journey.

A new spacecraft headed to the International Space Station later this month will be named after NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, a native West Virginian.“Her work at NASA quite literally launched Americans into space, and her legacy continues to inspire young black women every day,” Northrop Grumman wrote in a press release this week.

The West Virginia woman behind much of NASA’s 20th century space accomplishments died Monday at 101 years old. As an African American woman, Katherine…

In 2017, the West Virginia Legislature recognized Katherine Johnson, a female pioneer at NASA and a Presidential Medal of Freedom winner, marking April 3,…

Johnson was one of NASA's human "computers" and wrote trajectory equations for missions in the space agency's early days. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015.

Author Homer Hickam Jr. was born in Coalwood on February 19, 1943. After serving in Vietnam, he worked for NASA for 17 years as an aerospace engineer.…

West Virginia State University has honored NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson with a bronze statue and scholarship dedication on the eve of her 100th…

The Martin Luther King, Jr. State Holiday Commission honored Lewisburg natives Pamela Barry and Neely Seams with the “Living the Dream” award this…

Some Marshall University students and faculty will participate in a project to launch high-altitude balloons during next week's solar eclipse.Marshall…

On August 25, 2000, the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope was dedicated at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Pocahontas County. At 16-million…