Private Spaceflight Archive
24 August 2012, 08:00 AM ET
President Kennedy gets a lesson in how the Saturn Launch System works.
23 August 2012, 04:18 PM ET
SpaceX should make its first contracted supply run to the space station for NASA this October.
23 August 2012, 10:30 AM ET
Just after landing a rover on Mars, NASA announced another Red Planet mission for 2016.
22 August 2012, 06:29 PM ET
The huge robot imprinted "JPL" into the Martian surface to honor its maker.
22 August 2012, 01:31 PM ET
Raw photos from the Curiosity rover document its first Martian test drive on Aug. 22, 2012.
20 August 2012, 02:28 PM ET
The new finds bring the total exoplanet tally to nearly 800.
20 August 2012, 11:27 AM ET
The suspect valve stalled two cosmonauts from starting a 6.5-hour maintenance spacewalk.
20 August 2012, 08:00 AM ET
Astronaut James Irwin alongside the LVR on the lunar surface.
15 August 2012, 05:10 PM ET
Some key facts about the faraway cluster, which may be the most massive ever found.
15 August 2012, 12:10 PM ET
Images from a European Mars satellite helped make Curiosity's touchdown last week the most precise landing on the Red Planet yet.
15 August 2012, 06:42 AM ET
When two black holes collide they could create gravitational waves.
14 August 2012, 05:51 PM ET
The Russian spacewalk will take place on Aug. 20, and the NASA spacewalk is scheduled to occur on Aug. 30.
14 August 2012, 07:00 AM ET
Plate tectonics could make Mars a better candidate to host life than researchers had thought.
13 August 2012, 04:59 PM ET
The world's most powerful particle accelerators have created strange quark-gluon plasma.
10 August 2012, 07:07 PM ET
See two planets, the moon, and bright star clusters in one glance.
10 August 2012, 05:27 PM ET
The expedition was carried out to retrieve a sunken film capsule in the Pacific Ocean.
08 August 2012, 10:13 AM ET
Russian officials are investigating why an unmanned Proton rocket failed to reach the correct orbit Aug. 6.
07 August 2012, 05:52 PM ET
The new flagship astronomy mission could be one giant spacecraft or a fleet of smaller probes.
06 August 2012, 09:46 PM ET
Curiosity shot the footage itself as it streaked throught the Martian atmosphere.
06 August 2012, 05:48 AM ET
Scientists were treated like rock stars after they successfully landed the Curiosity rover on Mars.
05 August 2012, 08:01 AM ET
Saturn, Mars and the bright star Spica will form a triangle in the night sky.
02 August 2012, 05:48 PM ET
Mars is a moving target, so giving an exact distance from Earth depends on several factors.
02 August 2012, 05:46 AM ET
Curiosity's arm is 7 feet long and hefts 75 pounds of instruments.
02 August 2012, 12:44 AM ET
The Curiosity rover is slated to touch down on Mars on the night of Aug. 5.
01 August 2012, 10:58 AM ET
Many cultures have recognized this constellation as the Lion.
