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Bad weather delays U.S. space station shipment, 1st in months

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Wet and cloudy weather prevented NASA from resuming commercial space station deliveries Thursday. The space agency was looking to get back on track with the...

DATE: Dec 3, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Scientists discover hot new planet

New world may be much like our neighbor, Venus

DATE: Nov 28, 2015 | CATEGORY: Science

Report questions NASA’s health-risk planning

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA needs to get cracking if it wants to keep its astronauts alive and well on missions to Mars, according to an in-house report. In an extensive audit, NA...

DATE: Nov 21, 2015 | CATEGORY: Science

Spacecraft offers new clues about Mars’ atmosphere

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA’s Mars-orbiting Maven spacecraft has discovered that the sun likely robbed the red planet of its once-thick atmosphere and water. Scientists reported t...

DATE: Nov 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: Science

Astronaut takes spacewalk right before setting U.S. record

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA’s yearlong spaceman, Scott Kelly, took his first spacewalk Wednesday just hours before setting a new U.S. flight record. Kelly and Kjell Lindgren tackl...

DATE: Oct 28, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Mom, son roll across U.S. by train

5 days, 4,000 miles take them from Florida to California

DATE: Oct 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Travel

New Horizons gets new target

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The spacecraft that gave us the first close-up views of Pluto now has a much smaller object in its sights. NASA’s New Horizons fired its thrusters Thursday ...

DATE: Oct 22, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Pluto images offer new surprises

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The spigot has opened again, and Pluto pictures are pouring in once more from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft. These newest snapshots reveal an even more div...

DATE: Sep 11, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Buzz Aldrin forming ‘master plan’ for Mars

Former astronaut envisions tours of duty to planet

DATE: Aug 28, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Cheers! Liquor experiment arrives at space station

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Spirits arrived at the International Space Station on Monday. Not the ghostly ones, but the kind you drink – distilled spirits. The six astronauts won’t be ...

DATE: Aug 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Exhibit to remember dead shuttle crews

Challenger, Columbia debris goes on display

DATE: Aug 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

There’s no place like home, or is there?

Space telescope discovers what could be ‘close cousin’ to Earth

DATE: Jul 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business