Soyuz docks with ISS
Posted: Wed, Nov 16 6:02 AM ET (1102 GMT)
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying three new International Space Station crewmembers docked with the station early Wednesday, ending any remaining fears that the station would soon...

Shenzhou undocks, redocks with Tiangong module
Posted: Tue, Nov 15 7:24 AM ET (1224 GMT)
An uncrewed Chinese Shenzhou spacecraft undocked from the experimental Tiangong-1 module on Monday and redocked with the module a short time later, the last...

Soyuz launches new crew to ISS
Posted: Mon, Nov 14 6:11 AM ET (1111 GMT)
A Soyuz rocket successfully launched a spacecraft carrying three new ISS crewmembers early Monday. The Soyuz rocket lifted off from a snowy Baikonur Cosmodrome in...

Phobos-Grunt remains stranded in orbit
Posted: Fri, Nov 11 7:05 AM ET (1205 GMT)
Phobos-Grunt, the Russian Mars mission launched early Wednesday, is still in Earth orbit after the latest efforts to establish contact with the spacecraft failed....

ILS wins contract for Eutelsat launch
Posted: Fri, Nov 11 6:52 AM ET (1152 GMT)
International Launch Services announced this week it had won a contract to launch a Eutelsat communications satellite in 2013. ILS will launch Eutelsat W3D, a...

J-2X engine passes test
Posted: Thu, Nov 10 2:11 PM ET (1911 GMT)
A rocket engine planned for the upper stage of NASA's new heavy-lift launch vehicle passed a major firing test on Wednesday. A J-...

China launches imaging satellite
Posted: Wed, Nov 9 1:58 PM ET (1858 GMT)
China launched the latest in a series of Earth observation satellites on Wednesday. The Long March 4B rocket lifted off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch...

Phobos-Grunt launched but stranded in orbit
Posted: Wed, Nov 9 7:40 AM ET (1240 GMT)
Russia launched its first Mars mission in 15 years early Wednesday, but a technical problem has stranded the spacecraft in Earth orbit, at least temporarily....

NASA plans 2014 Orion test flight
Posted: Wed, Nov 9 7:25 AM ET (1225 GMT)
NASA announced Tuesday plans to fly its Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) capsule on an initial, uncrewed test flight in 2014. The Exploration Flight...

Mars500 simulation concludes
Posted: Sun, Nov 6 9:39 AM ET (1439 GMT)
Six men completed on Friday a 520-day simulated Mars mission conducted in a Moscow laboratory. The six men, three from Russia and one each...