Space travel a blast, students learn: Astronaut visits local ...
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When floating through space, and orbiting the Earth, an astronaut witnesses a sunset and sunrise every 45 minutes. Exploring beyond the atmosphere furthers
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Nearly 40 astronauts on Friday became the first to ride aboard a NASA tourist attraction that recreates a ride aboard the space shuttle.
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By Special to My Life  Schools around the Millington area recently participated in Space Week activities.  Millington Elementary School was filled with spaceships, robots and aliens during space week.
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A NASA experiment that could help shape the future of space exploration as part of a new generation of potentially life-saving space crafts has launched
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In the neighborhood of astronaut Lisa Nowak, parents are now able to play catch with their kids on balmy evenings. Instead of the hum of satellite trucks, they can hear birds chirping at sunset.
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REDFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. Students at a suburban Detroit high school are getting a second chance to see how space affects their science project.
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By Ross Daly  LI teachers achieve new orbits at Space & Rocket Center  Come fall, the students in Kevin Craine and Alicia Miller's classes are going to have a tough time topping their teachers' "What I Did This Summer" reports.
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By The Sun, Yuma, Ariz.  Jun. 22--One San Luiz, Ariz., teacher is going to space this summer -- space academy, that is.   Jesus Arrizon, a Southwest Junior High School math teacher, is attending the U.S.
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Like millions of people fascinated by space, Anousheh Ansari said Wednesday she remembers wondering as a child if somebody else like her could be out there among the stars. Next month the Iranian-born U.S. entrepreneur can get a closer look, as she rides a Russian capsule to the international space station and becomes the first female space tourist.
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An experiment that involves Montana State University scientists and students is orbiting the earth aboard a Russian space capsule.
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By CAROLYN CHURCHILL  ONE of the pioneers of space exploration touched down in Scotland yesterday as part of a project which promotes science to schoolchildren.
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Nearly 40 astronauts on Friday became the first to ride aboard a NASA tourist attraction that recreates a ride aboard the space shuttle, complete with the deep rumble of liftoff and a serene view of the earth from orbit.
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NEAR ARKALYK, Kazakhstan  - The world's first   female space tourist, Iranian-born Anousheh Ansari, returned to   Earth on Friday, bumping down in a Russian Soyuz capsule at   dawn on the Kazakh steppe.
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With a little help from NASA, students from McNair High School - which is named for an astronaut â-ight play a role in future space exploration.
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By Martin Merzer, The Miami Herald  Dec. 10--CAPE CANAVERAL -- Illuminated by 40 pure-white Xenon spotlights and the golden glare of five powerful rocket engines, shuttle Discovery and its seven astronauts thundered from the launch pad and into space Saturday night.
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Three weeks after returning to Earth, teacher-astronaut Barbara Morgan cheerfully carried out her first space education assignment Monday, sharing the magic of flying in orbit with children at Walt Disney World.
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American astronaut Mike Fincke, front , and Russian cosmonaut, Yuri Shargin, third, get off a plane at the Chkalovsky airport, just outside Moscow, Sunday, Oct. 24, 2004, while heading to Moscow&#39;s Star City, the home-base of Russia&#39;s space program.