Spaceflight Archive
02 May 2013, 02:26 PM ET
02 May 2013, 09:06 AM ET
The second man to walk on the Moon, Buzz Aldrin, thinks we should set our sights on the Red Planet. Buzz's new book 'Mission to Mars' explains his vision.
02 May 2013, 06:00 AM ET
Space station astronaut Chris Hadfield snapped a picture of a small puncture wound in one of the space station's solar arrays.
01 May 2013, 02:54 PM ET
Asteroid (101955) 1999 RQ36 received the new moniker in a student naming contest.
01 May 2013, 01:40 PM ET
See photos of NASA's Osiris-Rex asteroid sampling mission, which launches in 2018.
01 May 2013, 09:47 AM ET
An image of the J-34 engine showing icing after a flight.
01 May 2013, 09:38 AM ET
A cold war era satellite (Kosmos 1805) and NASA's Fermi spacecraft came within 30 milliseconds of occupying the same space. This caused lots of angst at NASA over a spring weekend in 2012.
30 April 2013, 06:56 PM ET
Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield helped Canada launch a new $5 bill from orbit.
30 April 2013, 06:56 PM ET
The Long March rocket's primary payload was a high-resolution Chinese Earth-observation satellite.
30 April 2013, 06:43 PM ET
In Friday's launch, a Soyuz rocket carried a Glonass satellite to orbit.
30 April 2013, 02:19 PM ET
That's about $8 million more than the previous going rate.
30 April 2013, 01:05 PM ET
NASA's first space shuttle, Enterprise, will soon have a new pavilion home in New York City.
30 April 2013, 09:24 AM ET
The Remote Controlled research staff and several of the lifting body models displayed with the radio controlled mothership.
30 April 2013, 09:00 AM ET
Virgin Galactic's Sir Richard Branson and George Whitesides talk about Space tourism's next huge step taken on April 29th, 2013.
30 April 2013, 07:24 AM ET
Virgin Galactic's first SpaceShipTwo customers could be flying by the end of the year.
30 April 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo is almost ready to carry tourists to space.
30 April 2013, 07:00 AM ET
It will soon cost $250,000 for a seat instead of $200,000, company officials say.
29 April 2013, 05:47 PM ET
See reactions and celebrations of Virgin Galactic's major rocket-powered flight test of SpaceShipTwo on April 29, 2013.
29 April 2013, 05:00 PM ET
See what it was like to watch SpaceShipTwo soar in its first supersonic test flight.
29 April 2013, 04:05 PM ET
Virgin Galactic conducted a historic first supersonic test flight of SpaceShipTwo on April 29, 2013, in the Mojave Desert, Calif., as seen in this stunning space wallpaper.
29 April 2013, 03:04 PM ET
The storm's eye spans a whopping 1,250 miles.
29 April 2013, 02:21 PM ET
See photos of the amazing X-15 rocket plane that pioneered human spaceflight in the 1960s
29 April 2013, 01:30 PM ET
Who were the men behind the X-15?
29 April 2013, 01:19 PM ET
Virgin Galactic's suborbital vehicle makes its first powered ascent on April 29, 2013. Exceeding Mach 1, but not (yet) trying for 'space' altitude, the test was deemed successful by the shipbuilder Scaled Composites.
