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Private spaceship tests underway in Va, Calif

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:04:24 -0400

NORFOLK, Virginia - A Colorado company developing a spaceship to take astronauts to the International Space Station is having elements of its spacecraft undergo landing-related tests at NASA facilities in Virginia and California.

NASA: New pump resolves big space station leak

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:40:08 -0400

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - An impromptu spacewalk over the weekend seems to have fixed a big ammonia leak at the International Space Station, NASA said Thursday.

NASA craft's planet-hunting days may be numbered

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:40:20 -0400

LOS ANGELES - NASA's planet-hunting Kepler telescope is broken, potentially jeopardizing the search for other worlds where life could exist outside our solar system.

3-man space crew returns safely to Earth

Tue, 14 May 2013 04:32:27 -0400

MOSCOW - A Soyuz space capsule with a three-man crew returning from a five-month mission to the International Space Station landed safely Tuesday on the steppes of Kazakhstan.

Astronaut exits space station with music video

Mon, 13 May 2013 22:50:29 -0400

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - In a high-flying, perfectly pitched first, an astronaut on the International Space Station is bowing out of orbit with a musical video: his own custom version of David Bowie's "Space Oddity."

Russia charging NASA $70 million per rocket seat

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:33:10 -0400

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - NASA is paying $424 million more to Russia to get U.S. astronauts into space, and the agency's leader is blaming Congress for the extra expense.