Space Station Crew May Have to Return Home
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MOSCOW - Echoing what NASA (news - web sites) officials said a day earlier, a Russian space official on Friday said the two-man crew on the international space station could be forced to return to Earth if a planned resupply flight cannot reach them with
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Bad weather could delay the return to Earth of space shuttle Atlantis and its crew of seven after a successful mission to the International Space Station, a NASA spokesman said Wednesday.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press  Video: Discovery Docks With Space Station   One astronaut will come home; another prepares to stay for six months.   CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
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Imagine rewiring your house while living in it. Now imagine you're not even sure the new power system will work and you're 220 miles above the Earth. That's the scenario facing astronauts on the second and third spacewalks of the space shuttle Discovery's mission to the international space station, a two-part process scheduled for Thursday and Saturday.
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By RASHA MADKOUR  HOUSTON - Mission Control has given Atlantis astronauts the go-ahead to start their descent back to Earth after a fruitful mission at the international space station. "You are go for the de-orbit burn," Tony Antonelli in Houston radioed up to the crew at 4:53 a.m.
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Two astronauts floated out of the International Space Station on Saturday on a risky spacewalk for what could be a make-or-break repair for completion of the $100 billion space outpost.
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The United States and Russia are making contingency plans for an emergency evacuation of the two-man crew aboard the International Space Station .
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The two space station astronauts left their orbiting home in the hands of ground controllers Wednesday and floated outside to install an experimental robotic arm and inspect vents that might be causing ...
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By ALICIA CHANG  EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - Atlantis' seven astronauts prepared to return to Houston from California on Saturday to reunite with their families, a day after the space shuttle was diverted to the state but landed safely.
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BAIKONUR, KAZAKHSTAN - A Russian-US crew lifted off on a two-day journey to the international space station, where their first priority will be to fix a broken generator.
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KOROLYOV, Russia - A rookie crew of two Russians and an American had a few scary moments as their craft approached too quickly to the International Space Station for docking before they put on the brakes in time to avoid a potential crash.
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Astronauts on the shuttle Atlantis   packed up on Tuesday as they prepared to return from their   11-day mission to expand the International Space Station.
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HOUSTON -- Seven NASA astronauts will bid farewell to the International Space Station (ISS) Tuesday when their shuttle Atlantis undocks after a busy construction mission.
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Even as NASA marks the second anniversary of the Columbia accident, and the tragic loss of seven astronauts returning home after a successful flight, agency officials and astronauts are looking&nbsp;toward&nbsp;a return to space shuttle flights.
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A Russian-US crew returned to Earth from the international space station Sunday in a pinpoint landing on the Kazakhstan steppe, and NASA&#39;s chief said the United States
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The explosion of a bolt could have damaged the Soyuz spacecraft set to carry a new crew to the International Space Station, and the Russian space agency says resulting safety
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A pair of spacewalking  astronauts left the International Space Station on Tuesday to  begin a planned 6.5-hour outing to inspect damaged parts of the  outpost's power system.