Mission is over for top astronaut
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THE longest serving astronaut in history, who flew twice to the moon and commanded the first space shuttle mission, has announced his retirement after 42 years at Nasa.
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Cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov grabbed manual control of the Soyuz during the final minutes of today&#39;s rendezvous with the International Space Station, overriding the spacecraft&#39;s autopilot that was supposed to guide the capsule throughout the approach and
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Shuttle lands to clear skies for shot at broken probe amid criticism Pentagon is militarising space
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - A spacewalking NASA astronaut pitched two large pieces of obsolete equipment off the International Space Station and into orbit on Monday.
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The unexpectedly long 10-year-old mission of the Mars Global Surveyor probe is most likely over after contact with the orbiter was lost earlier this month, NASA said.
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An astronaut from the space shuttle Atlantis collapsed twice Friday during a welcome home ceremony, a wobbly return that officials attributed to the adjustment from 12 days at zero gravity.
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Astronauts set to take off from Florida on the shuttle Atlantis are determined to remember the mission, because it could be the last of their careers.  Lee Archambault, a 20-year Air Force test pilot and longtime astronaut, has yet to fly into space, The Miami Herald reported.
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U.S. astronaut Lisa Nowak, who was arrested last month on charges she attempted to kidnap a romantic rival, has been terminated from the astronaut corps, NASA said on Wednesday.
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Lisa Nowak chose a juggling act of dauntingly high difficulty: to be an astronaut and a mother of three. Her background &#151; high school valedictorian, Naval Academy graduate, test pilot &#151; seemed to equip her for the challenge. Yet as she and some of her acquaintances acknowledged, the stresses on her and her family were extraordinarily intense.
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Two astronauts are floating outside the international space station on their fourth and final spacewalk. The American and Russian team is ending the 6-month mission with some installation and repair projects.
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John W. Young, Commander of First Shuttle Mission and NASA&#39;s Longest-Serving Astronaut, to Retire. HOUSTON Dec 8, 2004 - The longest serving astronaut in history, who flew twice to the moon and commanded
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I have been to zero gravity and flown like Superman. This is something that only astronauts and the stars of Apollo 13 have done before.
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NASA says the first of three spacewalks in nine days by the current International Space Station crew was a success.  The spacewalk ended at 6:09 p.m. EST Wednesday.  The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said Cmdr.
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When Sean OâKeefe took the top NASA job in 2001, the space community didnât know quite what to make of him. A self-described ânumbers guyâ, he was a management expert and his former
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Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka and American astronaut Mike Fincke had been in space since April. While in space they carried out four space walks, including one crucial mission to repair
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ARKALYK, Kazakhstan - The Soyuz spacecraft carrying a US-Russian crew pulled away from the international space station early Sunday, ending a six-month mission in orbit and starting a fast journey back to Earth.
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Anyone who    wants to follow in the shoes of Burt Rutan and win the next big space prize    will have to build a spacecraft capable of taking a crew of no fewer than five    people to an altitude of 400 kilometers and complete two orbits of the Earth    at that altitude. Then they have to repeat that accomplishment within 60 days.