The Space Shuttle Endeavour lights up the early morning sky at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, lifting off at 2:28 a.m.
Endeavour’s mission, STS-123, will carry two new components to the International Space Station: the first section of the Japanese Kibo lab and Canada’s two-armed robotic system, known as Dextre.

The developing International Space Station (ISS) has changed its appearance again. On mission STS-117, the Space Shuttle Atlantis visited the ISS and added pieces of the Integrated Truss Structure that mirrored those added in September 2006, including a second impressively long array of solar panels. The entire array of expansive solar panels are visible at [...]

Space Shuttle Discovery and its crew of seven astronauts lift off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, beginning the STS-116 mission to the International Space Station. This is Discovery’s 33rd mission and the first night launch since 2003.

A star 40 times more massive than our sun is blowing a giant bubble of material into space. In this colorful picture, the Hubble Telescope captured a glimpse of the expanding bubble, dubbed the Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635). The beefy star is embedded in the bright blue bubble. The stellar powerhouse is so hot that [...]

n October 19, 2005, a rocket blasted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base – the last Titan rocket. Carrying a payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office, the successful Titan IV B launch brought to a close the Titan program whose first launch was in 1959. Originally designed as an intercontinental ballistic missile, the Titan [...]

The opening drag chute slowed Endeavour as it landed on runway 15 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The Endeavour crew, led by Commander Scott Kelly, completed a 13-day mission to the International Space Station. The STS-118 mission began Aug. 8 and installed a new gyroscope, an external spare parts platform and another truss segment to [...]

I am looking forward to seeing this documentary. This is going to be a must have in the collection.
Between 1968 and 1972, 12 men walked upon the surface of the moon. All of the surviving crew from the Apollo missions tell their stories. With visually stunning NASA footage as counterpoint to this riveting firsthand [...]

Space shuttle Atlantis and its seven astronauts took a detour across the US and landed safely in California, ending a two-week mission of construction on the international space station.
Atlantis’ homecoming yesterday was the 51st time a space shuttle touched down at the Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert since 1981.
“It’s just great to [...]

It make me want to go out and get one of these. Who would not want to see what is going on in the space station?

Sometimes baby monitors pick up more than they should. People have gotten radio stations or images of a neighbor’s baby. Now Nancy Pender reports a Palatine mom got quite [...]

In what had to have been among the eeriest sensations ever felt by a human being, Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean took this photograph of astronaut Charles Conrad examining the Lunar Surveyor 3, a craft that landed on the moon nearly two years prior to Bean and Conrad’s own arrival.
A half-century of exploration has left [...]