NASA to transition Orion contract to MPCV
Posted: Wed, May 25 6:58 AM ET (1058 GMT)
NASA announced Tuesday that it will transition existing contracts for the Orion crew exploration vehicle to the new Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) program established...

Soyuz lands in Kazakhstan
Posted: Tue, May 24 7:01 AM ET (1101 GMT)
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying three ISS crewmembers landed safely in Kazakhstan early Tuesday, several hours after performing an unprecedented photographic survey of the station and...

Spacewalkers complete marathon second spacewalk
Posted: Mon, May 23 6:39 AM ET (1039 GMT)
Astronauts spent over eight hours outside the International Space Station on Sunday carrying out several tasks, including dealing with balky covers on a space station...

Endeavour cleared for reentry
Posted: Sun, May 22 8:56 AM ET (1256 GMT)
Shuttle managers announced Saturday they have cleared the shuttle Endeavour for a return to Earth at the end of this month after concluding a damaged...

Ariane launches two satellites
Posted: Sat, May 21 9:41 AM ET (1341 GMT)
An Ariane 5 rocket launched communications satellites for India and a Signapore-Taiwan venture on Friday. The Ariane 5 ECA lifted off from Kourou, French...

Proton launches communications satellite
Posted: Sat, May 21 9:27 AM ET (1327 GMT)
A Proton rocket successfully launched an American commercial communications satellite early Saturday. The Proton M lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 3:15 pm...

Astronauts complete first STS-134 spacewalk
Posted: Sat, May 21 9:08 AM ET (1308 GMT)
Two astronauts spent more than six hours outside the International Space Station Friday performing maintenance on the station. Andrew Feustel and Gregory Chamitoff spent six...

NASA sets launch date for final shuttle mission
Posted: Fri, May 20 4:43 PM ET (2043 GMT)
NASA announced Friday that it has scheduled the launch of Atlantis on the final mission of the shuttle program for July 8. Atlantis will launch...

AMS installed on ISS
Posted: Fri, May 20 8:01 AM ET (1201 GMT)
Astronauts installed a billion-dollar physics experiment on the exterior of the International Space Station on Thursday. Astronauts used the shuttle and station's robotic...

Free-floating planets may outnumber stars
Posted: Thu, May 19 8:19 AM ET (1219 GMT)
The detection of a group of large planets not orbiting any stars has led a team of astronomers to conclude that there may be more...