Astronaut&#39;s still not over the moon
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APOLLO 16 astronaut Charles Duke was a fighter pilot in Germany when US president John F. Kennedy announced America was going to the moon.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  - Days away from ending a  six-month mission in space, U.S. astronaut Michael Fincke said  on Wednesday he is looking forward to meeting his 4-month-old  daughter.
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A Canadian team&#39;s bid to launch the country&#39;s first manned spaceship is on hold, although the aspiring astronauts have not given up their attempt to win a $10 million prize.
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Astronauts, not robots, should fix the Hubble Space Telescope, says a new report by the US National Research Council (NRC). That conclusion is directly at odds with NASA, which is opposed to a human mission
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Days away from ending a six-month mission in space, U.S. astronaut Michael Fincke said on Wednesday he is looking forward to meeting his 4-month-old daughter.
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MOJAVE, California&nbsp;-- Nobody can claim that Burt  Rutan, the innovative aerospace designer, doesn't have his head in the  cloudsÂand his eyes focused on the stars.
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It was a staple of 1960s science fiction that the future would involve flying cars and holidays on the moon. While the mass-production flying car hasn&#39;t yet hit the showrooms, the prospects for space tourism have taken a few steps closer.
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There have been two important pieces of space-related news recently, the first of which was the European moon probe&#39;s success in entering the moon&#39;s orbit.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The country is not getting its money's worth out of the international space station, John Glenn said Tuesday, the 45th anniversary of the day he became the first American to orbit the Earth.
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Commercial space flight doesn't offer too many opportunities for investors, but there is one tiny prospect.
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Astronaut Pam Melroy has logged more than 560 hours in space. She slowed down long enough Tuesday to discuss the future of space exploration at Stennis Space Center.
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You&#39;re speeding through space at 28 000 kilometres per hour, at times the outside temperature gets down to a chilling minus two hundred degrees Celsius, there is no quick getaway.
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NASA has been screening astronauts for  decades and isn't supposed to let loose screws through. Is it not as good as we thought? Or are astronauts more fragile than they seem?
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Scientists are none the wiser as to what awaits the Huygens space probe on Saturn&#39;s moon Titan when it lands, despite a close pass by its mothership.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria broke the U.S. record of most time walking in space Thursday as he and another astronaut did maintenance work outside the international space station during their third spacewalk in nine days.Lopez-Alegria surpassed the previous U.S.
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â¢ The spacecraft&#39;s test pilots do not wear spacesuits. The craft&#39;s space-worthy cockpit is housed within a larger, similarly protective shell.
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MOJAVE, California -- Nobody can claim that Burt Rutan, the innovative aerospace designer, doesnât have his head in the cloudsâ¦and his eyes focused on the stars.