Astronauts await word of baby girl on Earth, 1 crewman about to become father for 2nd time Atlantis' astronauts anxiously awaited word on ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Shuttle Atlantis astronaut Randy Bresnik can be forgiven if he's having a tough time focusing on work -- ...
Astronauts from the shuttle Atlantis began Thursday the first space walk of their mission to store hardware and conduct repairs on the exterior of the International Space Station. After "camping out" overnight in the Quest airlock, which purges nitrogen from their bloodstream ...
Astronauts get set for 1st spacewalk of mission, antenna and cable work on space station Space shuttle Atlantis' astronauts are about to step out on the first spacewalk of their mission. Michael Foreman and Dr. Robert Satcher Jr. will float outside Thursday ...
The space shuttle Atlantis successfully docked Wednesday with the International Space Station and the hatch separating the crews was opened for the traditional welcoming ceremony, NASA said. The shuttle and its six astronauts left Florida's Kennedy Space Center without a hitch on ...
US Air and Space museum opens new spaceflight exhibit with Hubble instruments back on Earth Two instruments that helped save the Hubble Space Telescope from failure in 1993 were recently returned to Earth and are going on display at the Smithsonian's National ...
The space shuttle Atlantis Wednesday successfully docked with the International Space Station, NASA officials said. The shuttle and its six astronauts left Florida's Kennedy Space Center without a hitch on Monday on a 11-day voyage to deliver assorted gyroscopes, ammonia tanks and ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Space shuttle Atlantis arrived at the International Space Station on Wednesday to deliver spare parts needed to keep the outpost operational after the shuttles' retirement next year. Atlantis, which blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center on ...
NASA and Microsoft launched an interactive website that allows Web surfers to become Mars explorers. The "Be a Martian" website invites members of the public to help scientists perform such research tasks as improving maps of the red planet, the US space ...
The second man to set foot on the moon, former US astronaut Buzz Aldrin, urged Brazil to start investing in manned space flights if it doesn't want to miss out on their huge economic potential. It would be an "unforgivable mistake" if ...
NASA is ready to cooperate with China in space exploration, the head of the US agency said on Tuesday, as Beijing aims to send a manned mission to the moon by around 2020. "I am perfectly willing, if that's the direction that ...
NASA's Atlantis shuttle has blasted off with a haul of spare parts for the International Space Station and some microscopic worms that could explain muscle loss in space. The shuttle and its six astronauts left Florida's Kennedy Space Center without a hitch ...
