Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
Human spaceflight (or manned spaceflight or crewed spaceflight) is space travel with humans on the spacecraft.
Read More at Wikipedia ›With NASA's space shuttle program coming to an end and the future of its manned space flight in doubt, President Obama is facing intense pressure over his budget pri...
Houston, YOU have a problem. With no space shuttles to take astronauts to the International Space Station, the U.S. relies upon Russian rockets. But amid deep concer...
A look back at NASA's workhorse
Manned space exploration may become a casualty of Washington politics. Kris Gutierrez reports the Obama administration is cutting funding for America's return to the Moon.
Former president committed America to space exploration
China plans an ultra-deep dive by a manned submersible beneath the Pacific Ocean that would propel it past the US in a race to explore potentially vast mineral resou...
America and Europe have come together with one motto in mind -- Mars or Bust: 2016.On the deep space road trip, the latest collaboration between the European Space A...
This year, a rocket will carry a train car-sized module into orbit, the first building block for a Chinese space station. Around 2013, China plans to launch a lunar ...
Fly me to the moon? Sure thing.Private spaceflight company Space Exploration ( SpaceX ) has received tentative approval from NASA to send its Dragon cargo craft on a...
A half-century of America sending Americans into space came to an end Thursday -- and the era of the Soyuz and the cosmonaut began, Russia trumpeted Thursday.After d...
Along with training in spacewalks, robotics, and piloting a spaceship, NASA is requiring that all future astronauts learn to speak and read Russian.The rules are pla...
Boeing chooses home for space program
A statue of Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin has been erected in London to mark the 50th anniversary of the first human space flight.Gagarin's daughter, Elena Gagarina...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- A top NASA official said President Obama will announce plans to continue development of a stripped-down version of the Orion Crew Explora...
What is the future of space travel?
In the high-tech sector, there's an unrelenting din about the importance of innovation. Too bad there's precious little of it around.Aside from "disruptive," there's...
Panel debate Gingrich campaign strategy
Celebrating John Glenn's historic mission
First American to orbit the Earth