When NASA astronauts want to honor someone who helped keep them alive, they hand out a silver pin depicting Snoopy in a spacesuit. The Silver Snoopy Award is one of the space agency's highest honors, ...

For nearly five decades, NASA's twin Voyager probes have plumbed the cosmos in search of answers to some of astronomy's most perplexing mysteries about our solar system and its place in the wider ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Terry Abel, a two-time graduate of Mississippi State’s Bagley College of Engineering is the recipient of the prestigious Silver Snoopy award from NASA, an honor given to employees ...

Contrary to its name, Voyager 2 was the first of the vehicles launched into space first in Aug. 20 1977 from Florida. Its twin probe, Voyager 1, launched two weeks later on Sept. 5. At more than 15 ...