October 21, 2015 Spacewalking astronauts upgrade space station Two astronauts ventured outside the International Space Station to do some maintenance and repair work during a more-than-6-hour spacewalk today Oct. 7.
October 21, 2015 Russian Soyuz capsule reaches space station despite stuck solar array A Russian-built Soyuz capsule carrying a crew of three reached the International Space Station late Thursday.
October 21, 2015 NASA's Robonaut 2 droid gets its legs on space station Look out, astronauts – your companion robot on the International Space Station is now mobile!
October 21, 2015 Saturn's weird fast-changing ring baffles scientists One of Saturn's iconic rings looks much different today than it did just a few decades ago, and scientists aren't sure why.
October 21, 2015 NASA awards space taxi contract to Boeing and SpaceX NASA has awarded the space taxi contract to Boeing and SpaceX.
October 21, 2015 Boeing's new spaceship makes strides ahead of NASA space taxi decision The private spaceflight company Boeing has been hard at work designing a capsule that could deliver NASA astronauts to the International Space Station sometime in the next three years.
October 21, 2015 NASA Mars mission to try to turn Martian air into key rocket fuel ingredient: oxygen NASA plans to make oxygen — a key ingredient of rocket fuel — on Mars early next decade.
October 21, 2015 Astronauts simulate deep-space mission in underwater lab Plenty of astronauts practice spacewalks in the water, but a crew currently living in an underwater lab plans to introduce a surprising twist to its aquatic excursions: They will create a 10-minute communications delay with Mission Control, simulating what speaking with people on Earth could be like in deep space.
October 21, 2015 Apollo 11's scariest moments: perils of the 1st manned moon landing Apollo 11 was four minutes into its landing sequence when the terse words of its commander, Neil Armstrong, came from the speaker in Mission Control: "Program alarm."
October 21, 2015 Commercial shipment arrives at space station The International Space Station accepted a fresh delivery of goods Wednesday.
