NASA Astronaut Christa McAuliffe likely would be proud of civilian astronaut Richard Garriott. ...more

October 22, 2008

European Union leaders seeking to punish Russia for invading Georgia face limited options and are likely to choose diplomatic pressure to isolate Moscow at their summit today. ...more

September 1, 2008

The shuttle Discovery rolled to a stop here Saturday morning, bringing to a close a 14-day mission to the International Space Station. ...more

June 15, 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

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - Bay Crest Elementary School teacher Ruth Jones brought the moon into her fifth-grade classroom recently, allowing students to scrutinize moon rocks, create craters and compare space seeds to Earth ones. ...more

May 8, 2008

Capping a successful 13-day mission to the International Space Station, the crew of Atlantis glided home to a postcard touchdown at 9:07 a.m. Wednesday, setting the stage for another shuttle venture in less than three weeks. ...more

February 21, 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

If at first you can't get off the ground, fly, fly again. That's the attitude of space shuttle managers, who will try to get Atlantis airborne Saturday after a technical glitch kept astronauts on the pad Thursday. The fourth and final mission of the year will deliver a European science laboratory to the International Space Station and put NASA on track for a busy 2008. ...more

December 7, 2007

Ferrying hardware into orbit may not be the sexiest way to run a space program, but it's a critical part of the world's most ambitious construction job. ...more

October 23, 2007

CAPE CANAVERAL - The crew of space shuttle Discovery is in Florida this week for emergency training and a practice countdown for an upcoming launch. ...more

October 8, 2007