Astronaut takes a tumble in space
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The world&#39;s first private astronaut, South African-born Mike Melvill, was jubilant as he returned safely from a harrowing roller-coaster ride into space that stopped the hearts of onlookers.
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An astronaut who returned to Earth on the Space Shuttle Atlantis Thursday collapsed twice at a welcome-home ceremony Friday, but flight surgeons said she was fine, NASA said.
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French doctors are carrying out the world's first ever operation on a human in zero-gravity, using a specially-adapted aircraft to simulate conditions in space.
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By Mike Schneider THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA asked an astronaut aboard the International Space Station to exercise vigorously Friday, hoping the rapid movement would jostle a half-retracted solar wing that refuses to fold up properly.
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There's nothing routine about working in space, as astronaut Mike Fincke found out recently when he did some soldering onboard the International Space Station.    Science@NASA -- Richard Grugel, a materials scientist at the Marshall Space Flight Center, watched his video monitor in disbelief...
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DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah, Sept. 8 &#0151; A NASA capsule bearing precious atomic specimens that Hollywood stunt pilots were prepared to catch as it came into earth's atmosphere crashed into the desert this morning after a parachute that was to slow its fall failed to deploy.
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Test pilot makes successful foray into space on rocket ship. But there was some drama... THE spectators on the ground gasped as the rocket ship rolled at least 16 times in about 16 seconds.
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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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A daring plan to have helicopters snag a space capsule as it plunged toward Earth went awry Wednesday when its parachutes failed to open and it slammed into the desert floor.
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French doctors have carried out the world's first ever operation on a human in zero gravity, using a specially adapted aircraft to simulate conditions in space.
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By AP Wire Service  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  -- NASA asked an astronaut aboard the international space station to exercise vigorously Friday, hoping the rapid movement would jostle a half-retracted solar wing that refuses to fold up properly.
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MERIGNAC, France  - French surgeons performed the   first zero-gravity operation on Wednesday aboard a plane   free-falling to create weightless conditions in what they hope   can be a trial run for surgery on astronauts in space.
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The charge of attempted murder lodged against U.S. Navy Captain Lisa Nowak is not just a tragedy for the astronaut and her family. It strikes at the cherished image of astronauts as superior individuals who can cope with stresses that might crumple the rest of us.
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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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By LOS ANGELES TIMES  HOUSTON - After 19 years of marriage, three children and one magnificent shuttle flight into space, NASA astronaut Lisa Marie Nowak's life was beginning to unravel.
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By RASHA MADKOUR and DAVID CRARY HOUSTON - Lisa Nowak chose a juggling act of dauntingly high difficulty: to be an astronaut and a mother of three. Her background - high school valedictorian, Naval Academy graduate, test pilot - seemed to equip her for the challenge.
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With a big lean back and a giant push forward, American astronaut Clayton Anderson heaved a 1,400-pound (635-kilogram) tank of ammonia from of the International Space Station today (ISS).