The SpaceX Dragon space capsule was successfully launched early in the morning of Tuesday, May 22, 2012, for its historic mission to the International Space Station – the first trip to the ISS for a commercial space vehicle.

An aborted launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Saturday, May 19, 2012, prevented the first commercial spacecraft (Dragon) from docking with the International Space Station. The problem has been fixed and SpaceX officials are confident that another try on Tuesday, May 22, 2012 will be successful.

The first commercial mission to the International Space Station was aborted just before liftoff early Saturday morning on May 19, 2012, when a sensor picked up an indication of high pressure in one of the first-stage engines of the SpaceX rocket.

The most accurate count to date of the number of potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) out there in the solar system has come from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). These PHAs have the most potential of slamming into Earth and causing damage and havoc.

The Sun should put on a fantastic display in the western part of North America and Eastern Asia on Sunday/Monday, May 20/21, 2012, respectively, as the Moon blocks out most of the Sun, producing a solar eclipse and leaving only a “ring of fire”.

SpaceX announced on May 10, 2012, that it will join forces with Bigelow Aerospace. SpaceX will offer manned missions to low-Earth orbit in SpaceX Dragon capsules and Falcon Rockets. These spacecraft, filled with paying tourists, will go to private space stations built by Bigelow Aerospace.

After several delays in launching the first commercial spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS), officials with SpaceX has announced that their latest scheduled launch of its Dragon spacecraft will be May 19, 2012.

Famous for shunning the media spotlight following the Apollo 11 mission, Neil Armstrong has opened up over his ground-breaking experiences.

NASA has confirmed that SpaceX will delay the first commercial flight of a spacecraft to the International Space Station from May 7, 2012, to at least May 10th, due to more time needed for pre-flight tests and checkouts.

The biggest full Moon of 2012 will occur on Saturday, May 5, 2012, at approximately 11:35 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) on the eastern coast of the United States and on Sunday, May 6, at 1:35:00 p.m. in Sydney in New South Wales, Australia.

The planet Venus will be brilliantly shining in the early night sky for the early part of May 2012, as it approaches closer to our home planet Earth. Observe it on a clear night with binoculars or simply your naked eyes.

SpaceX has announced that the launch of its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft for its first mission to the International Space Station has been delayed again, however, such postponements are normal for pioneering efforts by such an organization.

A meteor the size of a minivan streaked across Nevada and California in the U.S. on Sunday, April 22, 2012, and caused a lot of concern and anxiety when it exploded in the atmosphere.

In late April, the Lyrid meteor shower comes to Earth. This year - in 2012 - astronomers on Earth and astronauts onboard the International Space Station attempt to create the first three-dimensional (3D) images for a meteor shower.

The early-morning launch on Friday, April 13, 2012, of a North Korean rocket failed to reach orbit as its first-stage rocket properly burned but its second stage failed to ignite - dooming the rocket and sending it back into the atmosphere where it disintegrated.

The European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle 3 -- ATV-3 for short -- approached the International Space Station on March 28, 2012. NASA released a beautiful picture of the lights of Earth in the background as the ATV-3 approached for docking.

After the United States decided to quit during the development of the ExoMars project to the planet Mars, the European Space Agency has secured the Russians to replace the Americans, as was announced on Friday, April 6, 2012.

  As soon as the sun goes down, four planets are putting on a show for all to see.

  A full set of data from the WISE satellite has been released by NASA including a single-image full-sky chart of space in infrared.

NASA estimated that the retirement of the space shuttles would cost about $42.8 million to take care of the preparation and transport expenses to their new homes around the United States. However, the actual cost was much less than expected. Maybe NASA will even throw in an old spacesuit or a couple of gallons of Tang to sweeten the deal?