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October 20, 2015

How the Columbia shuttle disaster changed spacecraft safety forever

Ten years after the devastating Columbia space shuttle accident that took the lives of seven astronauts, NASA is building a new spacecraft that will take humans farther into space than ever before, and will incorporate the safety lessons learned from the disaster that befell the agency Feb.

October 20, 2015

Kazakhstan mulls ending Russia's cosmodrome lease

The head of Kazakhstan's space agency said Monday that Russia's lease of a launch facility in the Central Asian nation, the only site worldwide currently being used to get astronauts to the International Space Station, may be suspended.

October 20, 2015

Final 10-mile trek for space shuttle Atlantis

Space shuttle Atlantis' final journey to retirement is down broad industrial avenues, most of them off-limits to the public. So Friday's trek won't replicate the narrow, stop-and-go turns Endeavour encountered last month while navigating downtown Los Angeles.

October 20, 2015

True Halloween horror stories from space

There's nothing like a good horror story in space. So allow me to serve as your cosmic Crypt Keeper for a few minutes, while I run though a few of the ones that get under my skin.

October 16, 2015

NASA's Scott Kelly breaks US record for most days in space

Waking up hundreds of miles above the Himalayas, astronaut Scott Kelly broke the U.S. record Friday for the most time spent in space with 383 days.

October 14, 2015

Cassini gets close encounter with Saturn's moon Enceladus

Scientists will be hunting for any signs of ancient geological activity similar to the geyser-spouting, tiger-stripe fractures in the moon's south polar region.

September 21, 2015

NASA鈥檚 Pluto mission in pictures

NASA made space history when its New Horizons spacecraft made its flyby of Pluto on July 14, 2015 after an epic journey of 3 billion miles -- which lasted more than 9 years -- to the dwarf planet.

June 12, 2015

NASA's 'flying saucer' in pictures

NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD), or 鈥榝lying saucer', aims to test landing technologies for future Mars missions. NASA launched its second LDSD test flight on June 8, 2015, although only one of the two technologies designed to slow its descent to earth fully deployed.

May 21, 2015

Astronauts return to Earth after six months on International Space Station

A Soyuz capsule carrying two Russians and one American landed in Kazakhstan on Thursday, ending the astronauts' nearly six months aboard the International Space Station.

May 21, 2015

SpaceX looks to launch space weather satellite, land rocket

SpaceX is aiming for both a launch and landing within minutes of each other Sunday.