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  • Official: Solar plane to help energy use on ground

    The plane parked outside the airport looks more like a giant exotic insect or maybe an outsized balsa wood toy airplane. When it's in flight, there's ... 

  • Vladimir Putin, Valentina Tereshkova

    Tereshkova marks 50 years of her historic flight

    It was another Soviet first in space 50 years ago — putting a woman in orbit. And 26-year old Valentina Tereshkova carried her part with grace, ... 

  • Chinese craft blasts into space on docking mission

    A Chinese spacecraft blasted off to begin the country's fifth and longest manned space mission, taking three astronauts to an orbiting space lab from ... 

  • China marks decade of human spaceflight

    China's astronauts have braved the tension of docking with a space station and performed delicate tasks outside their orbiting capsule, but now face ... 

  • Astronauts face radiation threat on long Mars trip

    Astronauts traveling to and from Mars would be bombarded with as much radiation as they'd get from a full-body CT scan about once a week for a year, ... 

  • Charles Bolden,  Firouz Naderi, John Brophy

    NASA head views progress on asteroid lasso mission

    Surrounded by engineers, NASA chief Charles Bolden inspected a prototype spacecraft engine that could power an audacious mission to lasso an asteroid ... 

  • Solar plane completes 2nd leg of trip in Texas

    A solar-powered plane has landed in Texas, completing the second leg of a trip across the United States. The Solar Impulse is making the first attempt ... 

  • Students in Ghana launch mini-satellite

    Their project might not sound like much: The college students on Wednesday launched a tiny model of a satellite the size of a soda can on a big yellow ... 

  • Andre Borschberg, Bertrand Piccard

    Solar plane lands in Ariz., 1st leg of major trip

    Alone in the single-seat cockpit and high above the American Southwest, pilot Bertrand Piccard could hear only his plane's gear box and the quiet ... 

  • Virgin Galactic spaceship makes 1st powered flight

    Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo has made its first powered flight, breaking the sound barrier in a test over the Mojave Desert that moves the company ... 

  • Marcus Scherdel

    Sun-powered plane completes California test flight

    A solar-powered plane that has wowed aviation fans in Europe took to the skies Friday over the San Francisco Bay area in a successful test flight. 

  • An agency-by-agency guide to Obama's 2014 budget

    President Barack Obama has proposed a $3.8 trillion budget for fiscal 2014 that aims to slash the deficit by a net $600 billion over 10 years, raise ... 

  • Senator: NASA to lasso asteroid, bring it closer

    NASA is planning for a robotic spaceship to lasso a small asteroid and park it near the moon for astronauts to explore, a top senator said Friday. 

  • Mars missions scaled back in April because of sun

    It's the Martian version of spring break: Curiosity and Opportunity, along with their spacecraft friends circling overhead, will take it easy this ... 

  • Solar plane plans stops in Phoenix, Dallas, NYC

    A solar-powered plane that has wowed aviation fans in Europe is set to travel across the United States with stops in Phoenix, Dallas, Washington, D.C. 

  • SpaceX Dragon cargo ship splashes into Pacific

    The SpaceX Dragon capsule returned to Earth on Tuesday with a full science load from the International Space Station — and a bunch of well-used ... 

  • Colton Harris-Moore

    Boeing worker mentors 'Barefoot Bandit' in prison

    Jonathan Standridge and Colton Harris-Moore made an odd couple as they sat together in the visiting room of a Washington state prison one day last ... 

  • Radar reveals apparent buried channels on Mars

    The face of Mars is dotted with a maze of channels, pointing to possible ancient megaflood episodes. Now scientists peering below the surface have ... 

  • NASA Mars rover in safe mode; science halted

    Science experiments by the NASA Mars rover Curiosity have been put on hold as engineers troubleshoot a problem with its computer. NASA says the ... 

  • SpaceX company fixes Dragon capsule problem

    A commercial craft carrying a ton of supplies for the International Space Station ran into thruster trouble shortly after liftoff Friday. 

  • SHENZHOU 5

    China sets its 5th manned space mission for summer

    China will send three astronauts to its orbiting space station this summer in a mission that's part of preparations to establish an even larger ... 

  • Tycoon wants to send married couple on Mars flyby

    It's a road trip that could test the best of marriages: Mars. A tycoon announced plans Wednesday to send a middle-aged couple on a privately built ... 

  • NASA Mars rover analyzing powder from drilled rock

    The Mars rover Curiosity has successfully transferred a pinch of rock dust to its onboard laboratories for inspection, two weeks after drilling into ... 

  • Ahmadinejad unveils Iran's newest fighter jet

    Iran on Saturday unveiled its newest combat jet, a domestically manufactured fighter-bomber that military officials claim can evade radar. 

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