NASA releases Columbia videotape
Posted: Fri, Feb 28 9:09 PM ET (0209 GMT)
NASA released Friday a 13-minute segment of videotape shot on the flight deck of the shuttle Columbia during the initial stages of reentry, before...

O'Keefe: ISS partners reach agreement on station plan
Updated: Thu, Feb 27 7:52 PM ET (0052 GMT)
Originally Posted: Thu, Feb 27 12:57 PM ET (1757 GMT)
NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe told lawmakers Thursday that the partner nations of the International Space Station project have reached an agreement to allow the...

ILS delays next Atlas 5 launch
Posted: Wed, Feb 26 8:12 PM ET (0112 GMT)
International Launch Services (ILS) reported late Wednesday that it has postponed next month's launch of an Atlas 5 booster because of a problem with...

Report: engineers discussed shuttle problems day before reentry
Posted: Wed, Feb 26 7:44 PM ET (0044 GMT)
New email messages released Wednesday showed that engineers continued to discuss the potential for a reentry accident involving the space shuttle Columbia up to the...

ESA approves contracts for Vega booster
Posted: Wed, Feb 26 1:44 PM ET (1844 GMT)
The European Space Agency and several companies signed contracts Tuesday to complete the development of Vega, a small launch vehicle. ELV, an Italian company jointly...

News Corp., Liberty to pursue separate DirecTV deals
Posted: Wed, Feb 26 10:36 AM ET (1536 GMT)
News Corporation and Liberty Media no longer plan to cooperate on a deal to purchase satellite television provider DirecTV, but instead will work on separate...

Orbital reports profit for quarter, year
Posted: Wed, Feb 26 10:23 AM ET (1523 GMT)
Orbital Sciences Corporation recorded a profit for both the fourth quarter of 2002 and the full year, according to financial statements released by the company...

Investigators: orbital debris likely from shuttle
Posted: Wed, Feb 26 8:49 AM ET (1349 GMT)
Members of an independent panel investigating the loss of the space shuttle Columbia now believe that a piece of orbital debris that was tracked by...

NASA ends communication with Pioneer 10
Posted: Tue, Feb 25 8:28 PM ET (0128 GMT)
NASA announced late Tuesday that it plans no further efforts to communicate with the Pioneer 10 spacecraft, launched nearly 31 years ago and currently at...

Report: shuttle crew could have survived up to a minute after breakup
Posted: Tue, Feb 25 8:18 PM ET (0118 GMT)
The crew of the space shuttle Columbia could have survived for up to a minute after the orbiter started breaking up, MSNBC reported. An analysis...