Astronauts Prepare With Weightlifting
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Before doing their heavy lifting in space, the astronauts on the shuttle Atlantis did lots of heavy lifting back on Earth.
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WASHINGTON - Two Russian cosmonauts and South Korea's first astronaut are gearing up for a planned April launch to the International Space Station (ISS).
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The six crew members of space shuttle Atlantis strapped into the spacecraft and ran through a practice countdown Friday in preparation for the program's first launch of the year next month.
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The replacement crew for the International Space Station started two days of preflight exams Monday, part of final preparations to relieve the two-man Russian-American crew finishing a six-month mission.    Russian cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov and U.S...
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Astronauts on space shuttle Atlantis prepared for a walk in space on Monday to add a giant new piece to the International Space Station, and NASA engineers pondered whether a bump in the ship's heat protection system needs repair.
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Astronauts hunkered down in an airlock ready for the second space walk of NASA's latest shuttle mission on Sunday, to install more hardware on an orbiting station hundreds of miles above Earth.
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Astronauts on the shuttle Atlantis  packed up gear and checked out their spacecraft on Tuesday as  they prepared to come home from their 11-day mission to the  International Space Station.
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The crews of the US space shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station (ISS) have laid the groundwork for the first of three complicated spacewalks seen as critical to completing the half-finished orbiting laboratory.
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The next three humans bound for the International Space Station (ISS) are spending their final hours on Earth before launching into space tonight atop a Soyuz rocket.
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WASHINGTON - Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) are gearing up for an extra spacewalk to tackle solar array joint malfunctions outside their orbital laboratory.
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Two astronauts begin a spacewalk, preparing to fix an extension to the International Space Station (ISS).
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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station began the delicate task of folding up one of the station's solar power wing panels on Wednesday to make way for a new set to track the sun for power.
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Spacewalkers aboard the International Space Station prepared on Sunday for an unplanned, fourth outing to fix a stuck solar array, while other crew members finish transferring cargo brought up by the shuttle Discovery.
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Astronauts stowed gear and battened   down the hatches on shuttle Atlantis on Thursday as they got   ready to land at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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HOUSTON â Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) are forging ahead with the activation of the orbiting laboratory's new European research module.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The six crew members of space shuttle Atlantis strapped into the spacecraft and ran through a practice countdown Friday in preparation for the program's first launch of the year next month. "It went seamlessly," NASA spokesman Bill Johnson said.
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Members of the International Space Station crew have successfully conducted a series of tests in preparation for their historic Thursday spacewalk.