The space shuttle has landed at Kennedy Space Center after all. ...more

September 21, 2009

A new military global positioning satellite is heading to orbit after a dawn lift off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. ...more

August 17, 2009

Virgin Group's billionaire chairman Richard Branson says he hopes to have a spaceship ready in time to take his 92-year-old father and 89-year-old mother into space with him. ...more

July 28, 2009

Confronted with orbiting junk again, NASA ordered the astronauts aboard the linked International Space Station and shuttle Discovery to move out of the way of a piece of debris Sunday. ...more

March 23, 2009

NASA has a flight gap coming. Can the private sector fill it? The space agency is planning to retire the shuttle fleet in 2010, but the next generation of spacecraft is not likely to be ready to fly astronauts to the International Space Station and beyond until 2015. During the pause in American flights, the United States will rely on Russia to get astronauts to the station. ...more

January 2, 2009

When the first of many loud alarms sounded on the space shuttle Columbia, the seven astronauts had about a minute to live, though they didn't know it. ...more

December 31, 2008

A new NASA report says that the seat restraints, suits and helmets of the doomed crew of the space shuttle Columbia didn't work well, leading to "lethal trauma" as the out-of-control ship broke apart, killing all seven astronauts. ...more

December 30, 2008

Space shuttle Endeavour linked with the International Space Station on Sunday, kicking off a huge home makeover that will allow twice as many astronauts to live at the station beginning next year. ...more

November 17, 2008

Space shuttle Endeavour's astronauts unfurled a 100-foot, laser-tipped pole and surveyed their ship for any launch damage Saturday while drawing ever closer to their destination, the International Space Station. ...more

November 16, 2008

An American computer game designer reached space Sunday, fulfilling a long-deferred childhood dream that began with the flight of his astronaut father. ...more

October 13, 2008