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Atlantis, designated STS-122 by NASA, plans to dock with the International Space Station on Saturday, February 9.

Atlantis space shuttle installs Columbus science lab onto the International Space Station.

The crew of the STs-117 expedition aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis completed safety inspections Saturday in preperation for the expected Sunday docking with the International Space Station.

The space shuttle Atlantis, scheduled for a March visit to the International Space Station, will miss its launch window because of damage due to a hail storm. If all goes as planned, the shuttle will launch in late April.

Over 2,000 students from across the nation wrote essays to NASA, suggesting new names for the newest addition to the Internationanl Space Station (ISS).

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced Monday that the hatches separating the Space Shuttle Atlantis from the International Space Station closed had closed in preparation for the Shuttle's planned undocking from the Station on Tuesday

The Space Shuttle Atlantis' first part of the journey to space is already over--it trekked yesterday morning 3.4 miles from NASA's space shuttle assembly building to the launch pad in preparation for a December 6th mission to the International Space Station.

After 2 1/2 months in the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center, the shuttle Atlantis is rolled out to launch pad 39A for an aniticipated June 8 launch. The orbiter's external fuel tank was damaged in a Feburary hail storm.

According to NASA's website Mission Management Team Chair John Shannon has extended the STS-117 mission by two days so the crew can make repairs to the Space Shuttle Atlantis.

U.S. billionaire who helped develop Microsoft Word and two Russian Cosmonauts made it to the International Space station early Tuesday.

Finding information on the International Space Station and the NASA Space Shuttle program is easier than you might think, and very easy to view as they pass overhead in the night sky.

There are many ways to watch and listen to the space shuttle mission. Here are some tips on when to listen, and what will be going on in space.

NASA announced tuesday that a major upgrade will be ready for the Space Shuttle Atlantis' June 8th launch.

Constructed as a prototype vehicle for flight and endurance tests on the space shuttle design, the Enterprise paved the way for space flight for shuttles built after her.

The space shuttle, once thought to be the solution to cheap access to space, will be retired in 2010 having never achieved that goal. However, cheap access to space may yet be accomplished by the private sector.

NASA proposed to build the follow on to the space shuttle, the Crewed Exploration Vehicle, five years after the shuttle will be retired. NASA is trying to narrow that gap. The solution may be a race to build a commercial space vehicle.

Jeffrey Manber recently published a piece in the LA Times advocating closer cooperation with China in space. He does so without actually explaining adequately why this would be a benefit to the United States.

NASA is planning to explore other planets farther out in our solar system that will add even more years to the space missions resulting in the astronauts being away from home longer. The space agency has now been put in the position of pondering many issues.

People have argued about the need for space flight and complain about the money spent. I give facts about space flight and show why people need to explore beyond what they see.

The Atlantis mission is successful. The new solar arrays are functioning. Clay Anderson is on ISS. Suni Williams says farewell. And Atlantis performs final tasks.

Anousheh Ansari is the first ever space blogger, as well as the first female space tourist. Read here about how personal hygeine is taken care of in space, what happens when you see flying yogurt and find out where you can get more space travel tips!

The 2007 budget presented by the House Republican Study Committee has some good ideas to reduce the deficit. Unfortunately it also has a proposal that would sound the death knell for publicly funded human space flight in the United States.

No problems are being tracked. Atlantis is set to deliver payload and rotation of crew. Atlantis is a step toward a future of space exploration with constellation projects.

Saturday, June 8, 2007, the Atlantis lifted off from Kennedy Space Center.

A spacewalk turned up what appears to be metal shavings inside the joint of key equipment aboard the International Space Station. What is it?

Highlights about last august exceptional NASA's mission to the International Space Station aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour

The space shuttle Endeavour launched on March 11, at 2:28 AM Eastern Time, carrying a payload for the International Space Station, including a sgement of teh Japanese Kibo lab module and a two armed Canadian built robot.

Recently Robert Bigelow, the Los Vegas hotel tycoon who has been working on an orbiting "space hotel" made a couple of announcements that have shaken up the commercial aerospace world.

Peggy Whitson, Amateur Radio callsign KC5ZTD, and other "hams" aboard the ISS, talk to students around the world via amateur radio. An Italian school in Rome named for Galileo is looking forward to their contact on October 31!

Space flight veteran Frederick Sturckow will lead the Atlantis crew on its trip to add the third set of solar wings to the space station on mission STS-117.

A research project called transhab, first developed by NASA, may well form the basis of the first commercially developed, privately operated space station.

Sometime in the fall of 2010 the space shuttle will launch on its last mission. In the early Spring of 2015, barring unforeseen delays, the Orion space craft will become operational, available to take crews and supplies to the International Space Station.

"Suni" Williams, a 41-year old astronaut aboard the International Space Station, ran the Boston Marathon on a treadmill. Suni finished two hours behind the top female finisher.

The standard for civilian space travel restricts the FAA from regulating amateur space travel until a fatal tragedy occurs. President Bush signed this document in 2004. The reality of space travel arrives with the Virgin Galactic space port in NM.

For astronauts flying in space, especially for long periods, the lost of muscular strength and bone mass, among other problems, caused by prolonged exposure to micro gravity has been a concern to researchers.

After several exceedingly wealthy individuals have gone for "space vacations," it seems that an industry will develop providing space travel to the rich.

If the computers cannot be permanently rebooted, the ISS will have to be abandoned, as the computers control the altitude and recycling systems, affecting the astronauts' food and water supplies.

Wrapping up the final day of the shuttle's 11-day mission, Atlantis crew members Joe Tanner and Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper completed installation on a wireless TV antenna. Other maintenance tasks include a new P3/P4 truss segment for operation.

With only 1 week before the space shuttle is scheduled to launch, shuttle workers voted to strike.

Until now NASA only had the innocuous name Crew Exploration Vehicle for the next generation of space craft. Though still on the drawing board, NASA finally has christened its new class of ships.

Forty or so years ago, astronauts had all the glory of the exploration of space. Now, robots are exploring places that currently no astronaut can go. For the past twenty five years, no human being has journeyed beyond low Earth orbit.

It's one of the delicious ironies of history that the first private space travelers were facilitated by the Soviet (then Russian) space program.

"I think it's special that I get the opportunity to play that role."

Included in NASA's contract with RSC Energia is a contract for a $19 million Russian space toilet system that has the ability to transform urine into drinking water.

The last of America's space shuttle fleet will be put out to pasture in 2010. That means that the opportunity to witness one of their spectacular lift-offs is counting down faster than most of us are aware of.

Despite predictions of poor weather, Mother Nature cleared the skies yesterday, October 23rd, just in time for a picture-perfect launch from Cape Canaveral, on Florida's central east coast.

For nearly six months, a legion of worms has been traveling through space. Actually, over 100,000 have been aboard the International Space Station as a science experiment.

That's right, Madonna is heading to the International Space Station on a Russian rocket ship. Wait…what?

The space station is operated mostly by US and Russian space agencies. The Russian computers that control the space station's orientation, and oxygen and water supply have failed.

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