Spaceflight Archive
25 April 2013, 04:39 PM ET
After years competing in spaceflight, the United States and the Soviet Union did a joint mission for the first time in 1975.
25 April 2013, 02:24 PM ET
Experts have estimated that there are 29,000 objects 10 cm or larger orbiting Earth. Only 7 percent are working satellites. The European Space Agency is looking at ways to mitigate the threat.
25 April 2013, 12:43 PM ET
How do you upchuck if there is no up or down? ISS commander Chris Hadfield explains what astronauts do if they have to vomit.
25 April 2013, 09:34 AM ET
Technicians make adjustments on the solar-powered, remotely piloted craft before its record-setting flight.
24 April 2013, 06:54 PM ET
Planetary Resources hopes to loft a set of cubesats to Earth orbit by this time next year.
24 April 2013, 12:00 PM ET
The 6th European Conference on Space Debris is being held this week in Germany.
24 April 2013, 12:00 PM ET
See launch photos for Russia's Progress 51 (M-19M) cargo ship bound for the International Space Station.
24 April 2013, 10:30 AM ET
Take a tour of the robot cargo ship fleet for the International Space Station in this spaceship photo tour.
24 April 2013, 09:56 AM ET
After launching from Kazakhstan early this morning, a Russian Progress capsule suffered a glitch once in orbit.
24 April 2013, 09:13 AM ET
The Progress 51 cargo craft successfully launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on April 24th, 2013. While on-orbit, an antenna used as a navigational aid did not deploy, ground controllers are currently assessing the situation.
24 April 2013, 08:00 AM ET
A technician focuses a television camera on a ramjet engine in a wind tunnel.
23 April 2013, 06:45 PM ET
The 2014 Sochi Olympic torch will fly to the International Space Station.
23 April 2013, 05:01 PM ET
SpaceX's reusable Grasshopper rocket reached an altitude of 820 feet, then stuck the landing.
23 April 2013, 03:26 PM ET
Eugene Cernan, the last Apollo astronaut to walk on the moon, left something behind: his daughter's initials in the dust.
23 April 2013, 03:22 PM ET
Harrison "Jack" Schmitt was the first trained scientist, rather than a former test pilot, to go to the moon. He collected evidence of volcanic activity during the Apollo 17 mission.
23 April 2013, 03:19 PM ET
As command module pilot, Ron Evans spent more time orbiting the moon than any other astronaut.
23 April 2013, 12:27 PM ET
SpaceX's Grasshopper rocket is a 10-story Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing (VTVL) designed to return rockets for reuse.
23 April 2013, 11:00 AM ET
Learn all about Russia's robot Progress cargo ships in this SPACE.com infographic.
23 April 2013, 10:06 AM ET
SpaceX's reusable Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing (VTVL) test vehicle made its highest jump yet, flying 820 feet in April 2013 and landed safely under near-perfect control.
23 April 2013, 07:00 AM ET
NASA had been splitting costs with the U.S. Deparment of Energy.
23 April 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Robots aren't yet capable of exploring the Red Planet's most promising environments.
22 April 2013, 06:11 PM ET
Mars One will do its best to avoid disturbing potential Red Planet life.
22 April 2013, 05:50 PM ET
The Mars One colony project raises the question of pregnancy on Mars.
22 April 2013, 03:24 PM ET
Not-for-profit company Mars One is now accepting applications for the opportunity to be the first humans to set foot on Mars in 2023. One catch - its' a one way ticket to colonize the desolate, caustic, cold world. Project founders explain.
22 April 2013, 02:15 PM ET
The private Mars One project officially launched its search for astronauts to colonize the Red Planet.
