John Young to retire
Posted: Mon, Dec 6 8:44 AM ET (1344 GMT)
Veteran astronaut John Young, who walked on the Moon and commanded the first space shuttle mission, will retire from NASA this month. Young joined NASA...

India and Russia to cooperate on GLONASS
Posted: Sun, Dec 5 1:47 PM ET (1847 GMT)
India will help Russia replenish its constellation of GLONASS navigation satellites, including launching some satellites on Indian vehicles, officials of the two countries announced this...

NASA, CNSA leaders meet
Posted: Sun, Dec 5 1:28 PM ET (1828 GMT)
The administrator of NASA and his Chinese counterpart met formally for the first time last week in talks that could be the prelude for closer...

ISS supplies getting tight
Posted: Sat, Dec 4 9:57 AM ET (1457 GMT)
Space station crews have been consuming more food and water than predicted, forcing NASA to make plans for an emergency evacuation should a cargo spacecraft...

NASA centers announce buyout plans
Posted: Sat, Dec 4 9:30 AM ET (1430 GMT)
Five NASA centers announced plans Friday to offer buyouts to employees in an effort to cut hundreds of jobs. The Hampton Roads (Va.) Daily Press...

Intelsat resurrects IA-7
Posted: Fri, Dec 3 8:12 PM ET (0112 GMT)
Intelsat Americas-7 (IA-7), a satellite declared dead earlier this week, has resumed partial operations as engineers work to recover the spacecraft, Intelsat announced...

Ariane launch delayed
Posted: Fri, Dec 3 1:55 PM ET (1855 GMT)
The launch of a French reconnaissance satellite next week on an Ariane 5 has been delayed several days, Arianespace reported this week. The Ariane 5G...

Report: NASA, Russia near Soyuz deal
Posted: Fri, Dec 3 7:32 AM ET (1232 GMT)
NASA and the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) are near a barter agreement that would permit continued US access to Soyuz spacecraft for missions to...

Mars water results published
Posted: Fri, Dec 3 7:13 AM ET (1213 GMT)
Scientists working on NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers mission have published a series of papers in the journal Science that confirm earlier findings that liquid...

Small fire breaks out at VAB
Posted: Thu, Dec 2 8:09 PM ET (0109 GMT)
A small fire burned at the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center early Thursday afternoon, but no injuries or significant damage...