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COSMIC THANKSGIVING REPAST AWAITS ISS ASTRONAUTS
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA - Astronauts at the International Space Station will feast Thursday on pouches of Thanksgiving turkey... READ MORE›
ASTRONAUTS GET ICE CREAM, MAKE OWN PIZZAS AFTER DELIVERY ROCKET DOCKS
Besides NASA equipment and experiments, the Orbital ATK capsule holds chocolate and vanilla ice cream for the six station astronauts, as well as make-your-own flatbread pizzas... READ MORE›
AMERICANS WILL HEAD TO SPACE AGAIN WITHOUT A RUSSIAN TAXI
Beyond NASA's immediate transport needs, the commercial crew program is among the agency's first and largest efforts to integrate private-sector companies into its operations... READ MORE›
MIKE PENCE VOWS TO PUT AMERICAN 'BOOTS ON MOON AND MARS' AS HE QUESTIONS WHETHER SPACE SHOULD BE 'WEAPONISED'
And Gwynn Shotwell, president of SpaceX, said her company next year will launch astronauts to the International Space Station, the first American launch of people since 2011... READ MORE›
PENCE PROMISES U.S. WILL GO TO MOON, MARS AS TALK ALSO TURNS TO KEEPING UP WITH 'WEAPONIZATION' OF SPACE
After the 2003 space shuttle Columbia broke apart on descent, then-President George W. Bush announced the phasing out of the space shuttle program... READ MORE›
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BOEING CEO VOWS TO BEAT MUSK TO MARS
Boeing and SpaceX are also the first commercial companies NASA selected to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station... READ MORE›
MUSK SAYS FIRST PASSENGERS ON SPACEX ROCKETS MUST BE 'BRAVE'
On June 28, 2015, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket disintegrated shortly after launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida... READ MORE›
MYSTERIOUS US MILITARY PLANE RETURNS TO EARTH
Air Force officials have only told US media the aircraft performs risk reduction, experimentation and concept-of-operations development for reusable space vehicle technologies ... READ MORE›
AMERICAN X-37B AIRCRAFT LANDS AFTER SECRET MISSION LASTING ALMOST TWO YEARS
Technicians examining the X-37B unmanned spaceplane shortly after landing at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif The plane stands 9... READ MORE›
THE ASTRONAUT WHO WANTS TO CHANGE HOW WE SEE THE WORLD
Now, at 75,000 ?60,000 a seat, World View plans to fly space tourists and has recruited retired Nasa astronaut, Ron Garan, to captain the ship... READ MORE›
NASA STUDYING MANNED TRIP AROUND THE MOON AFTER PROD FROM TRUMP
NASA's 2017 budget request of about 19 billion includes 8.4 billion for human exploration operations... READ MORE›
NASA STUDY WARNS AGAINST PUTTING CREW ON HUGE ROCKET'S FIRST FLIGHT
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›
SPACEX LAUNCHES ITS FIRST RECYCLED ROCKET IN HISTORIC LEAP
It was the first time SpaceX founder Elon Musk tried to fly a booster that soared before on an orbital mission... READ MORE›
PHOTOGRAPHER DAVID DE RUEDA CAPTURES IMAGES OF ABANDONED COLD WAR ERA BUILDINGS
Close encounters of a soviet kind photographer captures other-worldly images of abandoned cold war era buildings in europe... READ MORE›
INDIA LAUNCHES 20 SATELLITES IN SINGLE MISSION
The rocket carries the highest number of satellites on a single Indian mission and the third highest in history... READ MORE›
CHALLENGER SPACE SHUTTLE DISASTER MARKED 30 YEARS ON
Three decades after space shuttle exploded after liftoff, reusable technology is seen as key to space exploration... READ MORE›
SPACE ACCIDENTS FAST FACTS
March 1981 - Two workers are killed in a nitrogen-filled compartment of the Space Shuttle Columbia during a launch rehearsal... READ MORE›
MEET THE LATEST MULTIMILLIONAIRE WITH AN OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD IDEA FOR SPACE
Bigelow Aerospace is set to send its expandable habitat to the International Space Station... READ MORE›
26,500 MEALS AND COUNTING, ISS LOGS 15TH YEAR OF CONTINUOUS HUMAN HABITATION
One sticking point, one to two decades ago, was a name for the place other than International Space Station -- ISS in NASA shorthand... READ MORE›
CARGO SHIP EXPECTED TO LAUNCH TO INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION SUNDAY EVENING
Orbital ATK, one of NASA's shippers, aims to launch its own cargo ship Sunday night from Wallops Island... READ MORE›
HOW TO WATCH A LIVE STREAM OF THE 2017 SOLAR ECLIPSE
North American viewers will have front-row seats to the Great American Solar Eclipse on Monday... READ MORE›
WORK STARTS ON TAXI RANK AT THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
A pair of American astronauts floated outside the International Space Station on Saturday to begin rigging parking spots for two commercial space taxis... READ MORE›
DELTA ROCKET BLASTS OFF FROM FLORIDA WITH IMPROVED GPS SATELLITE
The 207-foot 63 meter booster, built and flown by United Launch Alliance, bolted off its seaside launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 2 36 p... READ MORE›
US ASTRONAUTS SPACEWALK TO PREPARE ISS FOR COMMERCIAL SPACECRAFT
Two US astronauts on Sunday made speedy work to get the International Space Station ready for the arrival of more commercial spacecraft... READ MORE›
LIKE ANY LONG-RANGE VESSEL ISS NOW HAS MICE GROG COMPLIMENTS OF THE STORK
A Japanese company known for its whisky and other alcoholic beverages included five types of distilled spirits in a space station cargo ship... READ MORE›
NASA EXTENDS CONTRACT WITH RUSSIA FOR RIDES TO SPACE STATION
Spurred by Russia's involvement in Ukraine, the ban covers Russian-built RD-180 engines used in United Launch Alliance's Atlas 5 rockets... READ MORE›
SPACEX CARGO SHIP SCRAPPED DOCKING AT SPACE STATION
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›
BOEING UNVEILS STARLINER SPACE FLEET
The Starliner name was revealed by the commander of the last shuttle flight, Chris Ferguson, now deputy manager of operations for Boeing's commercial crew program... READ MORE›
SPACEX FALCON ROCKET EXPLODES AFTER LAUNCH, NASA RELEASES IMAGES
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft stands ready for launch at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida... READ MORE›
FRENCH ASTRONAUT DELIGHTED WITH BIRTHDAY GIFT
Courtesy Thomas Pesquet via AP France's musical astronaut Thomas Pesquet is enjoying a special birthday present delivered to him up at the International Space Station... READ MORE›
ROCKET ENGINEER WHO PREDICTED SPACE SHUTTLE CHALLENGER DISASTER DIES
Ebeling warned his boss the morning before the launch of the dangers that could face the Challenger if it was sent into space that day... READ MORE›
UNMANNED U.S. AIR FORCE SPACE PLANE RETURNS AFTER SECRET, TWO-YEAR MISSION
The U.S. military's experimental X-37B space plane landed Sunday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, completing a classified mission that lasted nea... READ MORE›
MYSTERIOUS U.S SPACE PLANE LANDS AFTER SECRET TWO-YEAR MISSION
EDT 1147 GMT on a runway formerly used for landings of the now-mothballed space shuttles, the Air Force said in an email... READ MORE›
SPACE STATION GETS 'EASTER SWAN' OF A SUPPLY SHIP
Orbital ATK named this Cygnus after Rick Husband, who piloted the first shuttle docking at the space station in 1999... READ MORE›
JAPANESE ASTRONAUT ONISHI SNAGS FIRST ANTARES CARGO DELIVERY TO ISS IN TWO YEARS
While the Antares was grounded, Virginia-based Orbital ATK kept the NASA supply chain open with deliveries from Cape Canaveral, Florida, using another company's rocket... READ MORE›