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Expedition 31 Trio Blasts Off for International Space Station
Expedition 31 Trio Blasts Off for International Space Station

HOUSTON – NASA Flight Engineer Joseph Acaba, Russian Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Sergei Revin blasted off for…

Small Planets Don’t Need Stars with Heavy Metal Content to Form
Small Planets Don’t Need Stars with Heavy Metal Content to Form

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. – The formation of small worlds like Earth previously was thought to occur mostly around stars rich…

Next Soyuz Space Station Crew Prepares For Launch
Next Soyuz Space Station Crew Prepares For Launch

HOUSTON – The next residents of the International Space Station are making final preparations for a May 14 launch and…

Dancing Droplets Rock Out On Space Station
Dancing Droplets Rock Out On Space Station

HOUSTON – Expedition 31 Flight Engineer Don Pettit of NASA has taught more than half a million internet viewers how…

NASA’s Commercial Crew Partner Boeing Completes Parachute Test
NASA’s Commercial Crew Partner Boeing Completes Parachute Test

WASHINGTON – The Boeing Company successfully completed the second parachute drop test for its Crew Space Transportation (CST) spacecraft Wednesday,…

Space Station Trio Lands Safely In Kazakhstan
Space Station Trio Lands Safely In Kazakhstan

HOUSTON – Three members of the Expedition 30 crew undocked from the International Space Station and safely returned to Earth…

NASA Issues Statement on SpaceX Launch Date
NASA Issues Statement on SpaceX Launch Date

WASHINGTON – In response to SpaceX’s announcement that it has delayed launch of its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft…

NASA’s Orion Spacecraft to Appear Alongside Shuttle Discovery
NASA’s Orion Spacecraft to Appear Alongside Shuttle Discovery

WASHINGTON – A full-scale test version of the Orion spacecraft is one of several NASA-sponsored exhibits that will appear alongside…

NASA Television to Air Movements of Space Station Cargo Ships
NASA Television to Air Movements of Space Station Cargo Ships

HOUSTON – NASA Television will broadcast the departure of one Russian Progress cargo ship from the International Space Station (ISS)…

Commercial Platform Offers Exposure at Space Station
Commercial Platform Offers Exposure at Space Station

WASHINGTON – Researchers will be able to expose experiments to the weightlessness and vacuum of space by using a new…