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Live coverage: Dragon supply ship back on Earth
SpaceX's Dragon cargo craft departed the International Space Station on Wednesday at 9:19 a.m. EDT (1319 GMT), concluding the commercial spaceship's eighth visit to the complex. Splashdown in the Pacific Ocean occurred at 2:55 p.m. EDT (1855 GMT).
Key return to flight milestone looms for Antares rocket
Targeting a resumption of Antares cargo launches to the International Space Station as soon as July, Orbital ATK plans to roll out an upgraded Antares rocket to a launch pad in Virginia this week for a 30-second firing of the booster's new engines.
Departure of Europe’s first Mars rover delayed to 2020
Europe's ExoMars rover will not be ready for launch in 2018, officials said Monday, forcing a two-year delay for the ambitious mission to drill into the Martian surface and search for the remnants of past life.
Boeing borrows from inventory to speed docking adapter delivery
Spare parts warehoused in the the United States and Russia will help Boeing finish assembly of a third space station docking port to receive arriving astronauts aboard Boeing's CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsules, replacing a unit lost in a Falcon 9 launch failure last year.
SpaceX announces plan to send mission to Mars in 2018
Elon Musk's space transport company -- chartered with a long-term goal of colonizing Mars -- plans to send the first commercial mission to the red planet as soon as 2018, SpaceX announced Wednesday.
Q&A with Mark Mulqueen, Boeing’s space station program manager
The International Space Station's oldest sections launched nearly 17 years ago, and with the huge orbiting research complex now well into its operational life as a microgravity science lab, prime contractor Boeing's job is keeping the outpost going, according to Mark Mulqueen, who manages the aerospace company's space station program.
Environmental testing underway for JPSS 1 launching in January
The next American polar-orbiting weather satellite that will feed long-range forecasts and track environmental trends has slipped into space-like testing ahead of launch.
Expandable room installed on space station
The International Space Station's robotic arm, under the control of engineers on Earth, extracted an experimental inflatable habitat from the trunk of SpaceX's Dragon supply ship Saturday and attached it to the orbiting complex.
VideoDragon arrives at space station with inflatable habitat in tow
SpaceX's Dragon supply ship executed a laser-guided rendezvous with the International Space Station early Sunday, delivering an experimental expandable enclosure for attachment to the complex later this month for tests to verify the inflatable design's suitability for future space habitats.
Photos: Dragon completes rendezvous with the station
The SpaceX Dragon cargo ship loaded with supplies, crew provisions, new science experiments and an experimental expandable module for the International Space Station arrived Sunday morning for rendezvous, capture and berthing.