international space station

Have you seen how big the western wildfires look from space? NASA recently released photos of some of the fires burning in the western United States and they really put into perspective just how large some of them are. The wetter weather this last weekend helped firefighters contain many of the out of control blazes...

A Russian space capsule carrying a three-man multinational crew landed safely Sunday, July 1, on the southern steppes of Kazakhstan ending their 191-day mission to the International Space Station. The Soyuz capsule performed a perfect upright textbook landing and Russian space officials quickly surrounded the space craft and erected ladders to begin pulling the crew members out.

Do you remember the Apollo missions? Walter Cronkite hosting the coverage on CBS TV, they'd spot the orange and white parachutes carrying the space capsule floating to a spashdown in the ocean and they would hoist the ship on to the awaiting ship. Reminiscant of those Apollo missions, the history-making gumdrop-shaped SpaceX Dragon capsule left the International Space Station and returned to Earth

History was made above us in space early this morning, May 25. The first non-governmental space vehicle, the SpaceX Dragon capsule, completed berthing with the International Space Station just after 10 a.m. (MDT). Dragon's hatch is scheduled to be opened early Saturday morning, May 26. The station's six astronauts will unload about 1,000 pounds of cargo, including food, clothes, batteries and a l

Have you ever watched the International Space Station pass by in the night sky? It is the largest man-made object in orbit and can be seen from Earth as it travels at an altitude of about 240 miles.

Will you be watching the historic launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket? For the first time in history a private company, Space Exploration Technologies or SpaceX, will fly a NASA mission to the International Space Station. The unmanned Dragon spacecraft will deliver much-needed supplies to the orbiting outpost. The launch was scheduled for 2:55 a.m. (MDT) but take off was aborted just after igniti

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