After several delays, including twice over the past week, the space shuttle Discovery has finally been launched into space. The spacecraft took off at precisely 7:43 p.m. EDT, embarking on the STS-119 mission, which will provide the International Space Station ...

Russia’s Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) has announced its intentions to build a low-orbit space station, which, according to the agency, will support future exploration of the moon and Mars. The project proposal is already on its way to be reviewed ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) announced plans to outsource upcoming resupply missions to the International Space Station (ISS). SpaceX vehicles will make twelve trips to the space station and Orbital Sciences Corporation vehicles will make eight between 2010 ...

Ad Astra Rocket Company of Webster, Texas is nearly ready to test its Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR) in space. A scale model of the plasma rocket will be put through its paces at the International Space Station (ISS) ...

On 5:02 p.m. EDT NASA launched the Discovery Space Shuttle on its latest mission, STS-124. The shuttle will deliver Japan’s Kibo pressurized module to the International Space Station (ISS). Furthermore, during some last minute preparations, very important equipment has been ...

Space Shuttle Discovery was launched today from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 11:38 a.m. EDT, following a smooth countdown. STS 120 will deliver and install the new Harmony Space Module onto the International Space Station (ISS), completing the ...

On August 8th, 2007, Space Shuttle Endeavour successfully lifted off the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The launch, the first for the Endeavour after almost five years following the Columbia Shuttle disaster, marks the beginning of the Space ...

A successful lift-off of the space shuttle Atlantis took place on 23:38:04 UTC on June 8th, 2007 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Atlantis took off after a long delay due to damage from a hail storm earlier this ...

Charles Simonyi the head of Microsoft’s application software group became the fifth space tourist after blasting off to space on board the Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft on April 7, 2007. Simonyi, along with two Russian cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov, ...

How often do we see all of those posed in one photograph? From space, it’s not as hard to assemble such a delegation. This photograph of part of the Middle East was a view from the window of the Space ...