Proton launches European satellite
Posted: Wed, Nov 25 11:02 AM ET (1602 GMT)
After a one-day delay caused by a dispute between Russian and Kazakh officials, a Proton rocket successfully launched a European communications satellite Tuesday. The...

Astronauts perform final STS-129 EVA
Posted: Tue, Nov 24 6:18 AM ET (1118 GMT)
Two astronauts breezed through the third and final spacewalk of the STS-129 shuttle mission to the ISS on Monday. Randy Bresnik and Robert Satcher...

Former Soviet cosmonaut Feoktistov dies
Posted: Tue, Nov 24 6:07 AM ET (1107 GMT)
Konstantin Feoktistov, a Soviet spacecraft designer and member of the first three-man space mission, passed away Saturday at the age of 83. Feoktistov, a...

Dispute delays Proton launch
Posted: Tue, Nov 24 6:00 AM ET (1100 GMT)
The launch of a European communications satellite on a Proton rocket was delayed for 24 hours on Monday, apparently because of a dispute between Russian...

Atlas launches Intelsat 14
Posted: Mon, Nov 23 6:41 AM ET (1141 GMT)
An Atlas 5 rocket successfully launched a new Intelsat communications satellite early Monday. The Atlas 5 431 lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 1:...

Astronauts complete second STS-129 EVA
Posted: Sun, Nov 22 11:52 AM ET (1652 GMT)
Two astronauts completed the second of three planned spacewalks of the STS-129 shuttle mission to the ISS on Saturday, again working ahead of schedule....

Russia launches military satellite
Posted: Sat, Nov 21 10:22 AM ET (1522 GMT)
A Soyuz rocket launched an unspecified military satellite on Friday. The Soyuz rocket lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia at 5:44...

STS-129 astronauts complete first spacewalk
Posted: Fri, Nov 20 6:58 AM ET (1158 GMT)
Two shuttle astronauts carried out the first spacewalk of the STS-129 mission on Thursday, working ahead of schedule and performing additional work. Astronauts Mike...

Shuttle docks with ISS
Posted: Wed, Nov 18 7:11 PM ET (0011 GMT)
The space shuttle Atlantis docked with the International Space Station on Wednesday and the combined crews immediately got to work transferring supplies to the station....

China and US plan space cooperation
Posted: Wed, Nov 18 7:05 AM ET (1205 GMT)
The leaders of the United States and China announced this week plans to cooperate in space exploration, although in unspecified ways. Space exploration was one...