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Video: BEAM welcomes first astronaut
International Space Station astronaut Jeff Williams opened the hatch and floated into the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, or BEAM, experimental habitat today for the first time.
Q&A with Scott Bolton, principal investigator on NASA’s Juno mission
Scott Bolton of the Southwest Research Institute leads the science team on NASA's Juno mission, a robotic spacecraft now on final approach to Jupiter designed to probe the giant world's deep interior and unravel how the solar system's king planet formed.
VideoRe-engined Antares rocket completes ground test firing
Orbital ATK's upgraded Antares rocket, featuring newly-built RD-181 main engines, completed a 30-second test firing on a launch pad on Virginia's Eastern Shore on Tuesday.
Video: Next space station trio finishing training at Star City
Soyuz commander Anatoly Ivanishin and flight engineers Kate Rubins of NASA and Takuya Onishi of JAXA conduct final qualification training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center for their flight to the International Space Station in June.
NASA calls off inflation of experimental station habitat
Mission control halted the expansion of Bigelow Aerospace's experimental space station module Thursday after the structure did not grow as predicted when air began flowing into it.
Bigelow’s station habitat to be expanded Thursday
Space station flight engineer Jeff Williams will send commands Thursday to pump air into an experimental soft-sided module developed by commercial space habitat builder Bigelow Aerospace, expanding the structure to four times its current size in a stepping stone to future orbital destinations. Live video begins at 5:30 a.m. EDT (0930 GMT).
SpaceX ‘on track’ to launch astronauts in late 2017
SpaceX is on schedule to fly two NASA astronauts on a test flight to the International Space Station by the end of 2017, but there is a lot of work to do to ensure the company's new Crew Dragon spaceship is up to the task and ready in time, a SpaceX manager said Tuesday.
First German commander among astronauts named for station flights
International Space Station managers have named crew members to future expeditions to the research lab in 2017 and 2018, including the first German commander of a space mission and Canada's third astronaut to fly a long-duration residency on the complex.
Japanese orbiter officially begins science mission at Venus
Five months since a belated arrival at Venus, Japan's Akatsuki spacecraft has officially started a modified scientific survey of the sweltering, shrouded planet's atmosphere and climate.
Upgraded Antares rolls out to launch pad for tests
An Antares booster emerged from its hangar on Virginia's Eastern Shore and rolled out to its launch pad Thursday for the first time since a rocket failure grounded Orbital ATK's cargo launcher in 2014.