Space Programs

Russian mice, gerbils dead in 30-day space ordeal; lizards live

2013-05-20 19:27:00

A crew of Mongolian gerbils may have gone where no Mongolian gerbil has gone before, but they did not come back alive. A Russian spacecraft filled with mice, lizards and other animals has returned to Earth -- but with the majority of its furred passengers...

Watch: Space rock strikes moon with force of 5 tons of TNT

2013-05-18 06:00:00

The biggest explosion ever recorded on the moon was caused by a space rock roughly the size of a beach ball. It weighed 80 pounds and was just over 1 foot wide, but it was going incredibly fast, traveling through space at speeds of 56,000 mph. And...

Space plane arrives at NASA facility for flight testing

2013-05-16 13:00:00

A white-and-black space plane, very much resembling the now-retired space shuttle, was trucked to a NASA flight center in the Mojave Desert to begin a round of testing to see if it has the right stuff to carry astronauts one day. Tucked under a white...

'Star Trek' crew meets Space Station crew in live Google Hangout

2013-05-16 07:00:00

Free live streaming by Ustream "Star Trek" fans, set your alarms. And fans of the astronauts who live and work on the International Space Station, set your alarms too. At 9 a.m. Pacific time Thursday, the filmmakers behind "Star Trek Into Darkness"...

Spacewalk underway at International Space Station to fix leak

2013-05-11 08:49:00

In a spacewalk, Astronauts Chris Cassidy and Tom Marshburn replaced a pump component that has been gushing ammonia coolant, NASA reported Saturday. The spacewalk got underway at 5:44 a.m. PDT and was expected to last more than six hours, according to...

Space walk from ISS slated for Saturday, NASA says

2013-05-10 14:23:00

Astronauts from the International Space Station will start their space walk Saturday about 5:45 a.m. Pacific time, in an effort to locate and fix an ammonia leak in a coolant system, NASA officials said Friday. The unscheduled emergency walk was...

Ground control to Major Tom: ISS commander sings David Bowie

2013-05-12 18:17:00

International Space Station Expedition 35 Commander Chris Hadfield returns to Earth, and eventually Canada, on Monday. So, what better way to end the mission than doing a personalized rendition of David Bowie's classic "A Space Oddity," in the first music...

Space odyssey ends better for Chris Hadfield than for Major Tom

2013-05-13 19:51:00

A Soyuz capsule has landed safely in the steppes of Kazakhstan, bringing to a safe end the space odyssey of Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, whose video of David Bowie's "A Space Oddity" has gone viral. The capsule containing Hadfield, along with...

Chris Hadfield first in-space viral music video star with 'Space Oddity'

2013-05-13 14:17:00

The cover of "A Space Oddity" by Chris Hadfield, International Space Station commander, is going galactically viral Monday. But it was a decidedly terrestrial affair. And it centered on a Silver Lake producer and a Canadian singer who once did vocals...

NASA weighs spacewalk to repair ammonia leak on ISS

2013-05-10 10:45:00

� Astronauts on the International Space Station may take a spacewalk Saturday to repair an ammonia leak. The gas, used to cool one of the station’s solar arrays, began oozing from the left side of the station’s truss structure Thursday,...

Astronauts end spacewalk after fixing coolant leak

2013-05-11 12:39:00

Astronauts replaced a leaking component on the International Space Station after a 5-hour, 30-minute spacewalk, NASA reported. Engineers Chris Cassidy and Tom Marshburn�completed their spacewalk at 11:14 a.m. PDT Saturday, after gingerly gliding out...

Is Kepler dead? NASA to give update on planet-hunting telescope

2013-05-15 12:34:00

Is NASA’s Kepler planet-hunting telescope dead? That was the rumor circulating Wednesday, nearly a week after the space telescope went into safe mode. NASA will host a news conference at 1 p.m. Pacific time “to discuss the status of the...

Lt. Col. Jack Fischer sits inside the motion-based Research Flight Deck simulator at NASA-Langley on May 16. Fischer, who is based at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, is using the simulator training to evaluate the characteristics of the Dream Chaser spacecraft.

2013-05-16 00:00:00

Lt. Col. Jack Fischer sits inside the motion-based Research Flight Deck simulator at NASA-Langley on Thursday. Fischer, who is based at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, is using the simulator training to evaluate the characteristics of the Dream Chaser spacecraft.

2013-05-16 00:00:00

In this handout image provided by NASA,The Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft lands with Expedition 35 Commander Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), NASA Flight Engineer Tom Marshburn and Russian Flight Engineer Roman Romanenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) on May 14, 2013 in

2013-05-14 00:00:00