A team of astronauts working inside and out anchored a giant billion-dollar Japanese lab to the International Space Station on Tuesday, making it the biggest room there. ...more

June 4, 2008

The intergalactic keg party is in jeopardy. That's because someone clogged the space toilet. ...more

June 1, 2008

The intergalactic keg party is in jeopardy. That's because someone clogged the space toilet. ...more

May 30, 2008

NASA has set May 31 for the next space shuttle launch and said that Russia's investigation into last month's rocky landing of its own spacecraft shouldn't interfere. ...more

May 20, 2008

The astronauts aboard the orbiting shuttle-station complex face one last spacewalk today to wrap up exterior work on the newly installed Columbus lab, which flight controllers expect to be in use before Atlantis leaves next week. ...more

February 15, 2008

The astronauts orbit the earth in diapers, or as in the case of one astronaut, drive 1,000 miles in one. Caregivers of quadriplegics or paraplegics know the frailties of store-bought diapers, sometimes failing from one room to another. After eight years of care-giving under these circumstances it gets stressful. Maybe I am ignorant of something better on the market. If so please tell me. If not, please someone in the sciences invent an astronaut diaper for civilians. ...more

February 13, 2008

HOUSTON - Shuttle Atlantis chased the international space station in orbit Friday as its crew of seven astronauts prepared for a laser inspection of their ship's wings. ...more

February 8, 2008

CAPE CANAVERAL - Scattered clouds and sunshine are adding a bit of promise for today's planned 2:45 p.m. liftoff of Atlantis, although NASA is bracing for a front of bad weather to arrive before then. ...more

February 7, 2008

NASA said Wednesday that a survey of astronauts and flight surgeons found no evidence of launch day drinking by crew members, despite a report last year of two cases of drunkenness. ...more

January 24, 2008

TAMPA - It doesn't take much to ground the world's most sophisticated flying machine. ...more

December 9, 2007