STS-126 countdown begins
Posted: Wed, Nov 12 7:22 AM ET (1222 GMT)
The countdown for the launch of the next shuttle mission began Tuesday night with weather the one major concern for Friday's launch. The countdown...

NASA declares Mars Phoenix mission over
Posted: Mon, Nov 10 8:59 PM ET (0159 GMT)
NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander spacecraft has been given up for dead after failing to communicate with controllers for over a week, project officials announced...

Indian spacecraft enters lunar orbit
Posted: Sat, Nov 8 2:40 PM ET (1940 GMT)
India's first lunar mission successfully entered orbit around the Moon on Saturday. Chandrayaan-1 fired its main engine for 817 seconds at 6:21...

Proton launches Astra 1M
Posted: Thu, Nov 6 6:29 AM ET (1129 GMT)
A Proton rocket placed a European communications satellite into orbit early Thursday. The Proton M rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at...

Spaceport tax referendum fails in N.M. county
Posted: Wed, Nov 5 10:00 PM ET (0300 GMT)
A proposal to increase the sales tax in a New Mexico county to help fund the development of a commercial spaceport was narrowly by voters...

China launches two satellites
Posted: Wed, Nov 5 9:50 PM ET (0250 GMT)
A Long March rocket Wednesday launched a pair of satellites designed for meteorological and earth sciences research. The Long March 2D lifted off from the...

Extending shuttle to cost $2B/year
Posted: Tue, Nov 4 7:18 AM ET (1218 GMT)
Keeping the space shuttle flying beyond 2010 would cost $2 billion a year, a cost that could jeopardize development of key elements of Constellation, shuttle...

ISS debris reenters over Pacific
Posted: Tue, Nov 4 7:06 AM ET (1206 GMT)
A tank of ammonia jettisoned from the International Space Station over a year ago burned up over the South Pacific late Sunday, NASA officials said....

Phoenix in safe mode
Posted: Sat, Nov 1 8:39 AM ET (1239 GMT)
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander spacecraft is in a protective safe mode but is communicating again, project officials said this week. Phoenix apparently entered the...

Next shuttle mission cleared for launch
Posted: Sat, Nov 1 8:15 AM ET (1215 GMT)
NASA announced Thursday that the space shuttle Endeavour was cleared for launch in mid-November on a mission to the International Space Station. Endeavour is...