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MOSCOW – Russian Mission Control says a cargo spacecraft has docked at the International Space Station, delivering food, fuel, oxygen, scientific equipment and packages for the U.S.-Russian-Italian crew. The unmanned Progress M-09M blasted off Friday from the Baikonur cosmodrome carrying more...

The astronaut husband of a U.S. congresswoman seriously wounded when she was shot in head will decide by mid-February whether to join the last NASA shuttle launch as scheduled, the space agency said Sunday. Mark Kelly, the commander of April's Endeavour mission, has been on leave to tend to his...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida – A robotic Japanese cargo ship reached the International Space Station on Thursday, the first of a quartet of spaceships due to arrive at the orbital outpost over the next month. The ship, laden with supplies, science equipment and spare parts, is the second from Japan...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A pair of Russian spacewalkers breezed through a series of chores outside the International Space Station on Friday, installing a camera and an experimental radio system. Astronauts Dmitry Kondratyev and Oleg Skripochka set up the radio antenna and routed cable for it...

TOKYO – A Japanese rocket carrying supplies for the International Space Station successfully lifted off from a remote island Saturday on a mission designed to help fill a hole left by the retirement of NASA's space shuttle program. The unmanned rocket — Japan's second flight to the space...

NASA is replacing the lead spacewalker for its next shuttle mission after the veteran astronaut was injured in a bike accident over the weekend, officials said on Wednesday. Joining the shuttle Discovery crew in place of Tim Kopra will be Steve Bowen, a two-time shuttle veteran who last flew...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – An astronaut who crashed his bicycle over the weekend won't be taking part in space shuttle Discovery's final voyage next month. Astronaut Timothy Kopra suffered unspecified injuries in the accident Saturday, just 1 1/2 months before Discovery's planned liftoff. He is...

Space Adventures has been selling extra seats on the Soyuz flights to the ISS to wealthy businessmen at a price of around thirty million dollars for stays in low Earth orbit since 2001. Previous private space travelers have included financer Dennis Tito, computer game designer Richard Garriott...

The most recent delay of the space shuttle Discovery's mission over issues with its fuel tank has raised some questions over whether NASA will be able to fly an extra shuttle mission later this year as planned. NASA has two more shuttle trips planned before the aging three-orbiter fleet is...

NASA Space Flight is reporting that a meeting took place at the Johnson Spaceflight Center to discuss the possibility of attaching a Bigelow inflatable module to the International Space Station. The inflatable module would serve as a storage room for scientific equipment used in the Japanese...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA officials say an astronaut who had been slated for a spacewalk on the upcoming shuttle mission has been hurt in a bicycle accident. The space agency said in a release late Saturday that Tim Kopra will be OK. But officials are still evaluating if he'll be able to...

Space Adventures has been selling extra seats on the Soyuz flights to the ISS to wealthy businessmen at a price of around thirty million dollars for stays in low Earth orbit since 2001. Previous private space travelers have included financer Dennis Tito, computer game designer Richard Garriott...

NASA said Tuesday it will aim to launch the space shuttle Discovery February 24, after engineers found a way to shore up cracks on its external fuel tank that have delayed its final liftoff. "We think we can support a launch date for the 24th of February," said Mike Suffredini, International...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Space station commander Scott Kelly led NASA in a moment of silence Monday as he struggled with the senseless shooting of his sister-in-law. It was part of the national observance for all the victims of Saturday's shooting in Arizona. His identical twin brother, Mark...

A trio of cosmonauts living on the International Space Station celebrated a second Christmas in orbit today (Jan. 7) to mark Russian Orthodox Christmas. The three cosmonauts have the day off in space today to celebrate the Russian holiday, which comes just over two weeks after the Dec. 25...

This story was updated at 9:57 p.m. ET. NASA has delayed the launch of space shuttle Discovery's final flight yet again in order to allow more time repair the spacecraft's beleaguered fuel tank, the space agency announced late Thursday (Jan. 6). The decision came after a meeting of top space...

This year was a big one for spaceflight, with governmental agencies and the private sector alike marking many key milestones. During this watershed year, for example, NASA changed course to pursue new goals, the first private space capsule was launched into orbit and the International Space...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The International Space Station got three new tenants Friday, doubling in crew size with the arrival of a Russian Soyuz capsule. The Soyuz delivered an American, an Italian and a Russian for a five-month stay. They floated into the orbiting lab two days after their launch...

A New Reporter's Firsthand Account I had never seen a rocket launch firsthand until last week. Then I witnessed the future of American spaceflight. I had traveled down to Cape Canaveral, Fla., to cover the launch of the commercial space company SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon space...

A privately owned company put a spacecraft into orbit and brought it back safely on Wednesday in a groundbreaking test flight NASA hopes will lead to cargo runs to the International Space Station after the space shuttles are retired next year. The NASA-backed mission was designed to try out a...