The rain stayed away, a chunk of ice melted down, and space shuttle Discovery has finally blasted off.It’s carrying a crew of seven and an unusual payload: something that looks like a huge Tinkertoy. The structure needs to be attached to the international space station before European and Japanese l…

Discovery is scheduled to launch today with at 11:38 a.m with seven astronauts aboard. There has been countless news that the weather will be an issue with this launching, but if all goes well, the astraunauts aboard the Discovery will blast off on the 23rd mission to the International Space. The …

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The Atlas V launch of the Wideband Global SATCOM satellite has been delayed until Wednesday.

During the 24-hour delay engineers will try to understand a data signature, which is different fro…

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A critical fuel-loading operation is on tap at Kennedy Space Center this weekend as NASA presses ahead with p…

The Launch Control Center at Kennedy Space Center was evacuated this morning after a fire alarm rang out on an out-of-service bridge between the four-story facility and the towering Vehicle Assembly Building.

Dozens of NASA and contractor workers gathered in marshaling areas outside the LCC and the…

LIVE IMAGES: Refresh this page to see the latest still images from live video feeds at Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 41, where an Atlas 5 rocket is being readied for launch.

Just days before the scheduled launch of the next Atlas rocket, a team finished the review of a failed Atlas launch o…

Illustration of a Japanese spacecraft orbiting the moon.

ASSOCIATED PRESS-TOKYO - Japan put its first satellite into orbit around the moon Friday, placing the country a step ahead of China and India in an increasingly heated space race in Asia.

The probe was set into lunar orbit after completing …

The Associated Press is moving this story out of Los Angeles regarding a push by JPL workers to fight back against background checks. We’ve not seen nor heard of any similar push-back from folks at KSC, but if you have, please chime in.

Here’s the AP story …

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Some 1,000 scientists will converge on Orlando next week for a conference of the Division of Planetary Sciences, hosted by the University of Central Florida, which is trying to build up its 5-year-old planetary sciences department.

A group within American Astronomical Society, the DPS scientists wi…

Going once. Going twice. Going three times. Sold! To the online astronaut fan.

Personal memorabilia donated by legendary astronauts is being auctioned off to raise scholarship money for the next generation of U.S. scientists, engineers, mathematicians and technologists.

Up on the block: A copy of …

Everyone once in a while, Google will pay homage to space. Today it’s the Sputnik anniversary. Go to the search engine home site today at google.com and you’ll see the famed Russian satellite embedded in the logo in a nifty way. It’s worth a look.Tags: walt disney world, florida, vacation, nasa, ft….