Astronauts prepare to open station room
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Wearing goggles and surgical masks, the commander of the international space station and an Italian astronaut on Saturday opened the hatch to christen the complex's brand new room.
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Astronauts at the International Space Station prepared for a third space walk Friday to repair torn space shuttle insulation, amid problems with computers controling the ISS&#39;s oxygen supply and orbital position.
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Shuttle Atlantis crew  members prepared on Tuesday for their planned touchdown at the  Kennedy Space Center in central Florida after delivering  Europe's first permanent orbital laboratory to the  International Space Station.
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Astronauts get set to leave the shuttle Atlantis to attach new solar panels to the International Space Station.
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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) are preparing their orbital laboratory for a crew swap that will begin with the arrival of three new spaceflyers next month.
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An unmanned Russian spaceship on a vital supply mission approached the international space station, preparing to dock Saturday with its cargo of food for the two-member U.S.-Russian crew, who have been forced to ration their dwindling supplies.
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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 replacement crew for the International Space Station has begun a two-day preflight exams, a part of final preparations to relieve the two-man Russian-American crew finishing a six-month mission.
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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.
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US and European astronauts are preparing for their second spacewalk of the current shuttle mission.
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Astronauts hunkered down in an airlock ready for the second spacewalk 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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A Canadian and an American astronaut prepared for a second spacewalk set for Wednesday to continue setting up the first addition to the International Space Station in nearly four years.
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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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A two-man crew launches to the International Space Station tonight, tasked with keeping the outpost running and ready for space shuttles that will arrive after the men leave.
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The three-man crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS) will do a little housekeeping during a spacewalk next week to make way for future expansion of the laboratory.
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Astronauts entered a newly delivered International Space Station module for the first time Saturday as their colleagues prepared for a second spacewalk of the mission.
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The crew of the newly  repaired space shuttle Atlantis arrived at its Florida  spaceport on Monday as NASA prepared to launch the ship on a  mission to deliver a European space laboratory to the  International Space Station.