Source NASA The agency's current schedule calls for the initial, unmanned SLS-Orion flight to occur in 2019... READ MORE›
The decision to delay the Orion test flights was made in partnership with the White House, NASA officials said... READ MORE›
The Space Shuttle Columbia's first flight, in April 1981, was the first and only time NASA has sent a new craft into space with astronauts... READ MORE›
The unmanned Cassini spacecraft, after completing two passes in the vast, unexplored area between Saturn's rings has discovered not much else there, resear... READ MORE›
That's what we like, great American equipment that works, Trump joked when the connection between the White House and space station went through... READ MORE›
Mr Trump was celebrating Commander Peggy Whitson, an astronaut who set a new US record of cumulative days in space at more than 534 days... READ MORE›
China has an orbiting space lab, plans for a manned space station by 2022, and could become the second country to place a human on the moon... READ MORE›
On that day, Ms Whitson, the first woman to command the International Space Station, will have spent 535 days in space... READ MORE›
In a message from the International Space Station, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet said the station was shielded for objects up to 1 cm across... READ MORE›
'Politicians draw borders, but you can't see them from space' NASA astronaut Wheelock to RT... READ MORE›
Search Go Follow Contact Wednesday 26 April 2017 Russian cosmonaut takes relics of saint to space The Soyuz MS-02 space capsule carrying Sergey Ryzhykov lands near Dzhezkazgan... READ MORE›
The global investment bank Goldman Sachs has claimed mining asteroids for precious metals is a realistic goal... READ MORE›
Stock to fund Blue Origin LLC, the company fueling his dream of sending people into space... READ MORE›
A new space station built by the same teams to replace the aging ISS is a possibility... READ MORE›
Photo Professor Brian Cox came well prepared to tackle the topic of climate change on Q A last year... READ MORE›
Elon Musk's SpaceX achieved an important milestone in space travel, relaunching one of its previously recovered and refurbished Falcon 9 rockets for the first time... READ MORE›
It was the first time SpaceX founder Elon Musk tried to fly a booster that soared before on an orbital mission... READ MORE›
Ms Whitson, 57, and her spacewalking partner, station commander Shane Kimbrough, ventured out to complete prep work on a docking port... READ MORE›
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed into law a bill that adds exploration of Mars as a NASA goal... READ MORE›
President Donald Trump signed a bill into law Tuesday that updates NASA's mission to add exploration of Mars and authorizes 19.5 billion in spending for t... READ MORE›
The Dragon cargo ship parachuted into the Pacific on Sunday off the Southern California coast. Astronauts set it free from the International Space Station 5 1 2 hours earlier... READ MORE›
This is a positive budget overall for NASA, said acting administrator of the US space agency, Robert Lightfoot... READ MORE›
In the meantime, NASA is building the SLS and Orion for deep space exploration... READ MORE›
Neither has a Falcon Heavy rocket, which is essentially a Falcon 9 rocket with two strap-on boosters, according to Musk... READ MORE›
Gerstenmaier said that if adding astronauts postpones the first flight beyond 2019, it would probably be better to stick with the original plan... READ MORE›
NASA's 2017 budget request of about 19 billion includes 8.4 billion for human exploration operations... READ MORE›
Not surprisingly, most of the naming themes for Pluto relate to the underworld... READ MORE›
SpaceX made good on a 250-mile-high delivery at the International Space Station on Thursday, after fixing a navigation problem that held up the shipment a... READ MORE›
Feb. 19 AP The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Kennedy Space Center on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2017, en route to the International Space Station... READ MORE›
Nasa's network of satellites provide a wealth of information on climate change, with the Earth science division's budget set to grow to 2bn next year... READ MORE›
Supermoons generally appear to be 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than other full moons... READ MORE›
Within the next two years, private companies will for the first time send astronauts to the International Space Station... READ MORE›
Boeing and SpaceX are also the first commercial companies NASA selected to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station... READ MORE›
Japan launches a cargo ship carrying a space junk collector designed to gather debris in space... READ MORE›
At the same time Mr Obama proposed cutting support for deep space exploration by 840 million next year... READ MORE›
The likelihood of any known potentially hazardous asteroid striking the planet within the next 100 years stands at 0.01 the space agency said in a statement... READ MORE›
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have successfully grown zinnia flowers in microgravity. But is this the first flower grown in space?... READ MORE›
European Space Agency said Wednesday that the landing craft separated from Rosetta probe for descent to comet 67P... READ MORE›
The comet lander Philae surprised scientists when it suddenly woke up and contacted Earth after a seven-month hibernation the European Space Agency announced Sunday... READ MORE›
Jupiter's icy moon Europa may be the best place in the solar system to look for extraterrestrial life, according to NASA... READ MORE›
President Xi Jinping, in a congratulatory note read at the press conference, called the launch a milestone in China's work on manned space mission... READ MORE›
Probe sends back first image from comet's surface European Space Agency says Philae lander still stable despite not latching on to comet... READ MORE›
Schiaparelli represents only the second European attempt to land a craft on Mars, after a failed mission by the British landing craft Beagle 2 in 2003... READ MORE›
Last month, India successfully put the Mangalyaan robotic probe into orbit around Mars... READ MORE›
In 2011, Congress passed an act to bar NASA from having any bilateral contact with individuals of the Chinese space program because of national security fears... READ MORE›
On November 2, 2000, a Russian Soyuz Rocket docked at the International Space Station carrying Expedition 1... READ MORE›
Alyssa is the first person to have attended all three of Nasa's wold space camps And Nasa is taking her seriously... READ MORE›
Has been seen outside of the International Space Station... READ MORE›
The European Space Agency ESA has completed its Rosetta space probe mission with a landing on a comet 720 million km away, according to mission control... READ MORE›
Since 2011, the US Congress has barred NASA from contact with China's space program because of national security fears... READ MORE›
SpaceX founder Elon Musk on Tuesday unveiled his vision for making humans a multiplanetary species... READ MORE›
10 illustration provided by the European Space Agency shows the Rosetta probe, left, and Philae lander above the 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet... READ MORE›
When Nasa's New Horizons mission was launched at the start of 2006 Pluto was a planet but it's not any more... READ MORE›
Jupiter's icy moon Europa may be the best place in the solar system to look for extraterrestrial life, according to NASA... READ MORE›
In addition to English, Spanish and German, Thomas Pesquet has also spent many hours learning Russian... READ MORE›
China was excluded from participation on the International Space Station, largely because of U.S. concerns that its space program had a strong military component... READ MORE›
The modules that form the International Space Station had been done already on Mir, he says... READ MORE›
The spectacular series will include footage captured on the ISS and sent back to Earth by Russian cosmonaut Andrey Borisenko exclusively for RT... READ MORE›
Nasa releases video tour of entire International Space Station Play!... READ MORE›
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