International Space Station

08 October 2007 -- Engineers at a Russian-leased space launch site in Kazakhstan are making final preparations for the flight of Malaysia's first man in space. He will travel to the International Space Station with a Russian cosmonaut and a U.S. astronaut.

The Soyuz spacecraft is set for launch Wednesday from the Baikonur space center. It will carry Malaysian Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor into orbit along with astronaut Peggy Whitson and cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko.    » read more »

Sept. 18, 2007 -- HOUSTON - NASA will hold a pair of media briefings on Tuesday, Sept. 25, to preview the upcoming exchange of crews aboard the International Space Station.    » read more »

Newest module has ports that will link laboratories from Europe, Japan

14 September 2007 -- Washington -- In October -- the month that marks the 50th anniversary of the launch of the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, and the space age -- space shuttle Discovery and its crew will begin a 13-day journey to the International Space Station.

The mission, STS-120, is scheduled for launch October 23 to continue construction of the orbital outpost, adding a U.S. module called Harmony, or Node 2, that will serve as a port for installing more international laboratories.    » read more »

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 21, 2007 -- Space Shuttle Endeavour returned home today following a two-week mission that delivered more than 740 Boeing [NYSE: BA] flight hardware components to the International Space Station. The hardware, including the Starboard 5 (S5) truss element, will increase available power for space station systems.

"This was a very busy mission, and the Boeing Space Exploration team has worked very hard to support NASA and the United Space Alliance," said Brewster Shaw, vice president and general manager of Boeing Space Exploration.    » read more »

Landing marks 30 years of space travel for NASA’s Voyager spacecraft

21 August 2007 -- Washington – Space shuttle Endeavour landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida August 21, completing a 12-day, nearly 8.5-million-kilometer mission (STS-118) that leaves the International Space Station about 60 percent complete.

Endeavour returned safely to Earth despite a gouge in one of the tiles on its underside that is part of the spacecraft’s heat shield.    » read more »

Aug. 20, 2007 -- WASHINGTON - NASA has selected Benham Constructors LLC of Oklahoma City to receive a contract to design, build and commission a vibration and acoustic test capability that will support development of the Orion crew exploration vehicle. Orion will carry astronauts to the International Space Station and back to the moon in the next decade.    » read more »

Aug. 20, 2007 -- CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The space shuttle Endeavour crew, led by Commander Scott Kelly, is scheduled to complete a 13-day mission to the International Space Station with a landing at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, Aug. 21. The STS-118 mission began Aug. 8 and installed a new gyroscope, an external spare parts platform and another truss segment to the expanding station.    » read more »

20 August 2007 -- Mission controllers at the U.S. space agency NASA have cleared the space shuttle Endeavour for landing.

Officials say the decision, announced Monday, resulted from a review of imagery and data collected Sunday as the shuttle departed the International Space Station.

Endeavour's first opportunity to land at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida will be at midday Tuesday.

Officials decided to land the shuttle a day sooner than planned in order to avoid possible weather problems from hurricane Dean.    » read more »

19 August 2007 -- The U.S. space agency says the shuttle Endeavour has undocked from the International Space Station in preparation for an earlier-than-expected landing.

The shuttle is set to land on Tuesday, a day earlier than scheduled, at the U.S. spaceport in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

NASA officials say they want to land the shuttle early in case Hurricane Dean threatens the Houston control center, which directs all shuttle operations.

The powerful storm with 230-kilometer per hour winds is battering Jamaica and is forecast to move through the Gulf of Mexico later this week.    » read more »

Aug. 13, 2007 -- HOUSTON - NASA has added a new computer program to help monitor the four gyroscopes that keep the International Space Station properly oriented without the use of rocket fuel. During a spacewalk on Monday, two astronauts from the space shuttle Endeavour removed and replaced a gyroscope that failed in late 2006.

Computer scientists at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., designed the new software for the space station. The Inductive Monitoring System will be added to a group of existing tools to identify and track problems related to the gyroscopes.    » read more »

14 August 2007 -- NASA engineers are trying to decide whether astronauts on board the space shuttle Endeavour will have to repair a gouge in the underside of the spaceship before they return to Earth next week. Up in orbit, three members of Endeavour's crew talked to reporters, and teacher-astronaut Barbara Morgan took questions from school children.

Astronauts used a robotic arm Tuesday to pick up a spare parts platform from Endeavour's cargo bay and pass it to the station's crane to snap into position on the outside of the International Space Station.    » read more »

10 August 2007 -- The U.S. space agency NASA says it has found what seems to be damage on the space shuttle Endeavour's heat shield.

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station spotted a gouge in the shuttle's heat-resistant tiles Friday as the orbiter approached for docking.

Video images beamed down from space indicate the damaged heat shield measures about 7.5 centimeters square, which is slightly less than 60 square centimeters. NASA officials suspect a piece of ice or insulating foam from the shuttle's external fuel tank hit the heat shield during launch on Wednesday.    » read more »

Aug. 9, 2007 -- HOUSTON - NASA is providing continuous television and Internet coverage of space shuttle Endeavour's STS-118 mission to the International Space Station. Endeavour launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 8 at 6:36 p.m. EDT.

NASA Television features live mission events, daily mission status news conferences and 24-hour commentary. NASA TV is webcast at:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv    » read more »

Aug. 8, 2007 -- CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The space shuttle Endeavour and its seven-member crew lifted off at 6:36 p.m. EDT Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The astronauts are on their way to the International Space Station for an assembly mission, designated STS-118.    » read more »

Aug. 8, 2007 -- WASHINGTON - As space shuttle Endeavour and 10 million cinnamon basil seeds are set to launch on a mission to the International Space Station, NASA has opened registration for the Lunar Plant Growth Chamber challenge.    » read more »