The commander of the international space station Friday told CNN that the delay in the arrival of an unmanned commercial vehicle was "a little bit disappointing," but that it would be "unrealistic" to expect a complex and reliable system to be ready to go on the first try.
When the commander of Atlantis calls, "Wheels stop," upon landing this week, Ray Zink and Billy McClure will be waiting.
CNN's John Zarrella takes a look at the impact of the end of shuttle programs on the people who were part of it.
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden says that human space flight for America will not end with the retirement of the shuttle program. Instead, the space agency plans to refocus its efforts from lower-orbit vehicles to deeper space probes.
With the end of the shuttle program, NASA is transitioning to deep space exploration. CNN's John Zarrella reports.
September 12 is always the day that reminds us that the war may never end.
Emotional memorial events held in New York, Shanksville, PA, and at the Pentagon.
"I was scared," Ted Williams said.
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John McCain's involvement in the 1980s with a group of Senators hoping to save a troubled Savings and Loan comes back to haunt him
Only one person on the planet has covered every manned launch out of Cape Canaveral and now, on the eve of the 50th anniversary of spaceflight, he's written a book about it.
Wally Schirra, one of the original astronauts in the Mercury 7 project, died Thursday at age 84, NASA officials said.
A British student says he's cracked a 19 quadrillion-digit long code that's been puzzling Nasa scientists for decades. Nasa have invited him to present his reach at a scientific conference in China.
The space shuttle Discovery touched down at California's Edwards Air Force Base on Tuesday, completing the first shuttle mission since the 2003 Columbia disaster.
They are parents, as well as sons and daughters; triathletes, nature-lovers and rock 'n' rollers; pilots, scholars and engineers; seasoned space explorers and first-timers.
William Shatner wants to boldly go where he's only pretended to go so far.
Film can be a powerful medium -- but sometimes its power is overwhelmed by hype.
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In the annals of boondogglery, can there be any greater hero than Senator John Glenn? A generation ago he orbited Earth three times at taxpayer expense, an arguably legitimate--if obscenely expensi...
On or before April 17, some 117 million of your fellow citizens will, like you, voluntarily turn over some $555 billion to Uncle Sam and sign their return below the words, "I declare that.to the be...
Your correspondent was approached the other day by a Time Inc. senior statesman who, it emerged, was not interested in chitchat but was instead hustling a certain election bet. His proposition, ins...
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The Challenger space shuttle catastrophe continues to yield lessons for managers everywhere. Prominent among these are that top executives cannot afford to be isolated from the people below, who ar...
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