Stephen Colbert, the host of "The Colbert Report", says he is a big fan of space and supports the "great things" NASA is doing on the International Space Station.

The Russians were forced to delay the next manned flight to the International Space Station when the descent module for its Soyuz spacecraft was accidently over-pressurized during its testing phase. Thus, three of the current crew members onboard the ISS will get to stay in space a month and half longer.

The Russians launched its Progress spacecraft to the International Space Station on Wednesday January 25, 2012 (local time at the Kazakhstan launch site), with about 2.9 tons of supplies and equipment onboard for the ISS Expedition 30 crew.

The first commercial cargo ship (Dragon) planning to fly to the International Space Station by Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) will be delayed by nearly two months so engineers can perform additional testing.

A NASA photographer has taken a series of pictures of the International Space Station crossing the face of Moon. See the "amazing" composite picture.

Using a java plug-in, NASA's satellite tracker gives viewers a manipulable 3D view of every major satellite in earth-orbit.

A Russian Soyuz-2 rocket was unsuccessful in launching a communications satellite into orbit on Friday, December 23, 2011. This string of failures is a big concern for both Americans and Russians.  

In 2011, NASA began to develop a heavy-lift rocket for manned exploration, discovered the first Earth-sized exoplanet, assisted with commercial spaceflight, and made other major accomplishments and discoveries to help all of us here on Earth. You can vote for your favorite 2011 story by NASA.

NASA announced on December 9, 2011, that SpaceX will launch its Dragon spacecraft on February 7, 2012, for the very first flight of a private spacecraft to the International Space Station.

International Space Station commander Mike Fossum (United States) and flight engineers Satoshi Furukawa (Japan) and Sergei Volkov (Russia) landed sideways aboard their Soyuz spacecraft in Kazakhstan early in the morning of November 22, 2011.