January 22, 2018 Christa McAuliffe's lost Challenger lessons to be taught on Space Station Two educators turned astronauts will film science lessons while aboard the International Space Station that were originally planned to be performed by the late Christa McAuliffe, the first "teacher in space" who died on the space shuttle Challenger in 1986.
January 19, 2018 Astronaut set to be first African-American on Space Station crew removed from flight The reason for removing Jeanette Epps, who was scheduled to launch to the space station in June, was not given.
January 18, 2018 Astronauts going to Mars could face brain damage, study warns Going to Mars could be bad for astronauts’ brains, a new study using rodents has found.
January 18, 2018 NASA test fires rocket engine with 3D-printed 'shock absorber' for deep space missions NASA tested its powerful RS-25 engine for the first time in 2018 with a new part that was made in an unconventional way.
January 16, 2018 Eyes on the sky: When and where will China's rogue space station fall to Earth? Scientists across the globe are carefully monitoring China’s discarded Tiangong-1 space station, which will plunge into Earth’s atmosphere at some point in the coming months.
January 15, 2018 SpaceX dragon capsule returns to Earth after Space Station delivery A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship left the International Space Station and returned to Earth Saturday (Jan.
January 15, 2018 How John Young smuggled a corned-beef sandwich into space While John Young, who died on Jan. 5 at age 87 , is famous for his Apollo 16 moonwalks and his role as commander of the first space shuttle mission, the NASA astronaut is also remembered for a small scandal he triggered with a sneaky act: smuggling a corned-beef sandwich into space.
January 9, 2018 SpaceX says rocket performance OK in secret satellite launch CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX defended its rocket performance during the weekend launch of a secret U.S. satellite, responding Tuesday to media reports that the satellite codenamed Zuma was lost.
January 9, 2018 Zuma satellite launched by SpaceX reportedly 'total loss,' failed to launch into orbit A U.S. spy satellite which was supposed to launch into orbit on Sunday night is expected to be a “total loss” after it reportedly didn’t make it.
January 8, 2018 SpaceX launches rocket carrying classified payload for U.S. government SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket Sunday from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying into orbit a top-secret satellite codenamed Zuma.