Orbital Sciences` Antares rocket set for blast-off

Last Updated: Thursday, January 9, 2014, 16:47

Orbital Sciences Corporation has scheduled the launch of Antares rocket from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Thursday.

NASA extends space station life to 2024

Last Updated: Thursday, January 9, 2014, 01:56

The International Space Station will operate for an additional four years, or until 2024, the US space agency said.

Orbital Sciences` Antares launch scheduled on 8 January

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 7, 2014, 16:29

Orbital Sciences Corporation will launch its Antares rocket from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Wednesday.

Astronauts working to make water that burns

Last Updated: Monday, January 6, 2014, 15:41

On Earth we use water to put out most fires, but astronaut researchers on board the ISS are working to develop a special kind of water that actually makes things burn.

NASA to send out New Year`s Greetings in Times Square from space

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 31, 2013, 10:42

NASA astronauts are going to help ring in 2014 by sending greetings from space to the crowd gathered in New York`s Times Square on New Year`s Eve.

NASA astronaut takes stunning photo during spacewalk

Last Updated: Sunday, December 29, 2013, 00:27

NASA has released a photo of astronaut Mike Hopkins while he was spacewalking on December 24, 2013.

Technical problem delays ISS streaming-video venture

Last Updated: Saturday, December 28, 2013, 03:42

Spacewalking cosmonauts on Friday installed two cameras outside the ISS for a Canadian streaming-video business but then retrieved the gear after electrical connections failed, officials said.

Astronaut Chris Hadfield documents his space odysseys

Last Updated: Friday, December 27, 2013, 19:24

The windows of a spaceship casually frame miracles. Every 92 minutes, another sunrise: a layer cake that starts with orange, followed by a thick wedge of blue and topped with richest and darkest icing decorated with stars.

Russia bets on sweeping reform to revive ailing space industry

Last Updated: Friday, December 27, 2013, 05:13

From rocket-shaped playground equipment to faded murals of cosmonauts, mementos of the heyday of Soviet space exploration are scattered around this sandswept town that launched Yuri Gagarin into orbit in 1961.

NASA astronauts make second spacewalk; repair faulty ISS cooling system

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 25, 2013, 10:36

Two US astronauts successfully fixed a faulty cooling system on Tuesday working outside the International Space Station (ISS).

Astronauts poised for second spacewalk to repair station

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 24, 2013, 09:58

Two American astronauts prepared to step out Tuesday on a rare Christmas Eve spacewalk to wrap up repairs to the cooling system at the International Space Station, NASA said.