NASA has just confirmed that the first spacewalk to fix a bad coolant pump will be delayed another 24 hours so that ground technicians, engineers, and flight controllers can further develop the procedures needed to accomplish the task of two Space Station astronauts.  

NASA managers have given space shuttle Discovery a “GO” to launch on April 5, 2010, for its STS-131 mission to the International Space Station.  

According to California, it has designated numerous objects left on the Moon in the 1960s and 70s as a state historical resource. Since it looks like U.S. astronauts won’t be going to the Moon any time in the near future, articles left on the Moon will at least be protected from commercialism.

The space shuttle Endeavour is being prepared for its next-to-last mission into space. Only four other NASA missions of its Space Shuttle fleet remain in the Space Transportation System (STS) program—which is scheduled to end in September 2010.

The space shuttle Discovery lifted off from Florida at 11:59 p.m. EDT on Friday, August 28, 2009, for its journey to the International Space Station. However, the first complete test firing of the new Ares 1 rocket was canceled after a power unit failed with only 20 seconds left in the countdown.

The International Space Station now has a six-person crew.

The International Space Station's new water recycling system has proved fit for human consumption and astronauts have been cleared to consume the water it produces.

James Bond has a pretty stressful life, no doubt about that. But at least 007 can see a therapist when all the killing and snogging get too much. Astronauts have no such luxury. No, not with killing and snogging, but the access to a therapist. That may all be about to change...

Richard Garriott, son of Owen Garriot, a US Shuttle and Skylab astronaut, and co-founder of gaming company Origin Systems, is the world’s sixth space tourist, the world’s first second-generation astronaut and the first to truly make the US $30m flight a commercial venture that could eventually pay for itself.

Jules Verne, the first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), has completed its mission with a controlled destructive re-entry over the South Pacific.