Astronaut Finish Outfitting ISS Robot, Dextre

The International Space Station now has help in maintaining the ISS, its name is Dextre, and it is a robot. Astronauts have attached two cameras to it that act as its eyes and a tool belt and on Tuesday will be attaching it to the outside of the station's U.S. lab, Destiny. The 12-foot robot with its… Read

Astronauts Add Japanese Lab to ISS

The International Space Station (ISS) continues to receive new updates as two spacewalking astronauts worked through the night on the structure. First they installed the first room to the new Japanese laboratory, Kibo and then they attached hands to the two-armed robot nick-named Dextre. During this… Read

Space Shuttle Endeavour Rockets Safely Toward the ISS

The space shuttle Endeavour with a crew of seven astronauts on board took off safely Tuesday morning headed for its rendezvous with the International Space Station. Led by Commander Dominic Gorie, the Endeavour is scheduled to catch up with the ISS on Wednesday night. The Endeavour crew is facing the… Read

Space Shuttle Atlantis Launches

NASA mission STS-112 was facing the possibility of another delay, this time due to weather that was threatening to ground the mission, but the Mission Control found a hole in the weather and the space shuttle Atlantis blasted off on schedule at 2:45 PM EST on Thursday. Atlantis carries a crew of seven… Read

Atlantis Shuttle Launch Could Face Weather Delay

NASA said that with a cold front moving across the U.S. this week, the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis is facing about a 70 percent chance of being delayed. NASA said that it expects to make a final decision on the launch at about 3:30 AM EST on Thursday. If the launch is scrubbed for Thursday,… Read

Virgin Galactic Reveals SpaceShipTwo

Richard Branson's Virgin Group space division, Virgin Galactic unveiled SpaceShipTwo on Wednesday in New York City. Nearing its final phases of construction by Scaled Composites, the ship is set to be ready to take its first tourist into space in mid-2009. Before the first tourist may board the craft… Read

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