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Long-distance trip: NASA opening space station to visitors

You've heard about the International Space Station for years. Want to visit? NASA announced Friday that the orbiting outpost ...

Report: NASA's major projects busting budgets, schedules

NASA's major projects are busting budgets and schedules like never before, according to a congressional watchdog agency.

Betsy DeVos

Trump faces backlash over plan to dip into Pell reserves

Education advocates say a Trump administration plan to use federal Pell Grant money to fund space exploration would ...

Amazon's Bezos says he'll send a spaceship to the moon

Amazon tycoon Jeff Bezos said Thursday he's going to send a spaceship to the moon, joining a resurgence of lunar interest ...

SpaceX launches supplies to space station after power delays

SpaceX launched a load of supplies to the International Space Station on Saturday following a pair of unusual power delays.

SpaceX suffers serious setback with crew capsule accident

SpaceX has suffered a serious setback in its effort to launch NASA astronauts into orbit this year, with the fiery loss of ...

America's 1st female astronaut candidate, Jerrie Cobb, dies

America's first female astronaut candidate, pilot Jerrie Cobb, who pushed for equality in space but never reached its ...

Space station shipment launched from Virginia seashore

A fresh grocery shipment rocketed toward the International Space Station on Wednesday after launching from Virginia's ...

US astronaut to spend 11 months in space, set female record

A NASA astronaut will spend nearly a year at the International Space Station, setting a record for women. Station astronaut ...

Former astronaut Owen Garriott dies, flew on Skylab station

Former astronaut Owen Garriott, who flew on America's first space station, Skylab, and whose son followed him into orbit, has ...

Israeli spacecraft crashes in attempt to land on moon

An Israeli spacecraft crashed into the moon just moments before touchdown, failing in an ambitious attempt to make history ...

SpaceX launches mega rocket, lands all 3 boosters

SpaceX launched its second supersized rocket and for the first time landed all three boosters Thursday, a year after sending ...

Scott Kelly, Mark Kelly

NASA twins study explores space, the final genetic frontier

From his eyes to his immune system, astronaut Scott Kelly's body sometimes reacted strangely to nearly a year in orbit, at ...

Spacewalking astronauts tackle battery, cable work

Spacewalking astronauts completed battery and cable work outside the International Space Station on Monday despite ...

More delays for Boeing's new space capsule for astronauts

Boeing's new space capsule for astronauts faces more launch delays. The Starliner capsule was supposed to make its debut this ...

Spacewalking astronauts install better station batteries

Spacewalking astronauts hustled through battery hookups outside the International Space Station on Friday in a major upgrade ...

Spacewalking astronauts swap out space station's batteries

Changing batteries in orbit took some huffing and puffing and some intricate maneuvering by two spacewalkers Friday. But in ...

Russian-US crew arrives at International Space Station

A Russian-American crew arrived at the International Space Station on Friday, five months after a botched launch led to an ...

US-built capsule with a dummy aboard docks at space station

A sleek new American-built capsule with just a test dummy aboard docked smoothly with the International Space Station on ...

SpaceX crew capsule ends test flight with ocean splashdown

SpaceX's swanky new crew capsule returned from the International Space Station to an old-fashioned splashdown in the Atlantic ...