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October 31
- Two More Moons Discovered Orbiting Pluto
- Power Glitch Afflicts Europe's First Student-Built Satellite Mission
- SpaceX Fighting for USAF Launches
- U.S. Military Wants to Own the Weather
October 28
- ISS Crew Dons U.S. Spacesuits in Spacewalk Rehearsal
- Major Dust Storm on Mars Visible with Backyard Telescopes
- Russian Satellite Falls Silent, SSETI Express in 'Safe Mode'
- Zathura: A Cosmic Adventure Worth Taking
- View Mars at Its Best Saturday: Closest Pass Until 2018
October 27
- NASA Astronauts Hail Space Station's Fifth Year
- Boeing's Launch Schedule Hit by Impending Union Strike
- House Passes Bill to Allow NASA to Buy Soyuz Spacecraft
- Allen Telescope Array Update
- Europe's Student-Built Satellite Rockets into Space
October 26
- At ISS, Russian Spacecraft Successfully Fires Engines in Test
- Venus Express Clean-Up Goes Well, European Space Agency Says
- A Cloudy Target: Europe's Venus Express Probe to Explore Shrouded Planet
October 25
- NASA's Florida Spaceport Weathers Hurricane Wilma
- Russian Analysis of Failed ISS Reboost Nears Completion
- New Mars Map: Similarities to Earth Revealed
October 24
- Riding a Beam of Light: NASA's First Space Elevator Competition Proves Highly Challenging
- Boeing-Lockheed Rocket Merger Sparks Concern, Legal Challenge
- NASA Workers Shield Space Shuttles, Pluto Probe From Hurricane Wilma
- Venus and Earth: Worlds Apart
October 22
- ISS Astronauts Settle in for Six Months in Orbit
October 21
- Launch Date Slips for Europe's First Venus Probe
- Shenzhou 6 Orbital Module Reaches Higher Orbit
- Top Dem on House Science Committee Predicts Tough Fight for NASA's Budget
- SpaceX Sues Boeing and Lockheed Martin
- When Stars Fail, Planets Might Still Succeed
- 40 Years Ago: A Great Comet
- Behind the Scenes: Vandenberg Air Force Base
October 20
- Final Titan Rocket Launch Ends an Era
- NASA's Spirit Rover Descends From Martian Hilltop
- The Making of 'Race to the Moon': Apollo 8 Documentary Producer Tells All
- Cracking the Code of Pre-Earthquake Signals
October 19
- Hubble Searches for Oxygen on the Moon
- Craters in Planets and Moons Not What They Seemed
- Russian Spacecraft Fails to Boost ISS into Higher Orbit
- NASA, Air Force Team Up on Next Generation Rocket Engine
October 18
- Russia Agrees to Launch Brazil's First Astronaut to ISS
- Life's Building Blocks 'Abundant in Space'
October 17
- After ISS Flight, U.S. Space Tourist Returns Home
- A Wet Tradition Returns to European Launch Facility
- Northrop Grumman/Boeing Team Unveils CEV Design
- Small Galaxy Punches Hole In Andromeda
- Shenzhou 6 Returns: China’s Second Manned Mission Lands Safely
October 16
- Shenzhou 6 Astronauts Prepare for Landing
- Landing Coverage for China's Shenzhou 6 Spaceflight
October 15
- Chinese President Praises Shenzhou 6 Crew
October 14
- NASA Tackles External Tank Tests, Aims for May '06 Shuttle Launch
- Shenzhou 6 Astronauts Adjust Spacecraft's Orbit
- Ariane 5 Rocket Successfully Orbits Satellite Pair
- Discovering the Man Behind 'First Man'
- Viewer's Guide: Partial Lunar Eclipse Oct. 17
October 13
- Shenzhou 6 Crew Tests Spacecraft’s Capabilities
- Satellite Spots China’s Manned Rocket
- Astronomers Surprised: Stars Born Near Black Hole
- The Mega-Module Path to Nowhere (Or: How to Eliminate Human Space Flight With an HLV)
- Getting Ready for Mars
October 12
- Shenzhou 6 Astronauts Rack up a Day of Firsts for China
- New Heatshield Design Tests Europe and Russian Researchers
- Shenzhou 6 Away! China Launches Two Astronauts in Second Manned Spaceflight
October 11
- A Quest to See a Black Hole's Shadow
- Home Again: U.S. Space Tourist, Expedition 11 Crew Return to Earth
October 10
- Dark Matter: Invisible, Mysterious and Perhaps Nonexistent
- Unborn Star Revealed
- Revised NASA Shuttle Plan Includes Most Station Hardware
- Countdown to X Prize Cup Ends on a High Note
October 9
- NASA Issues New Centennial Challenges To Spur Suborbital Rocketry
- Online Game Could Boost You into Space
October 8
- Rocket Error Dooms Launch of European Ice-Watching Satellite
- NASA Spaceport to Host Zero-G Flights
October 7
- Private Spaceflight: Shifting into Fast Forward
- Film Review: 'Curse of the Were-Rabbit' is Howling Good Fun
- The Watery Part of the Sky
- The Mega-Module Path to Space Exploration (Or: How to Use an HLV)
October 6
- Jet Lag Aside, U.S. Space Tourist Greg Olsen Feels Fine
- Space Station Crew Change Going Well, Astronauts Say
- Delta 4 Rocket's West Coast Debut Enters Extended Delay
- Cranking Up the Allen Telescope Array
October 5
- NASA ISS Astronaut Has No Worries Over Earth Return
- SpaceShipOne Donated to Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum
- Colliding Stars Behind 35-year-old Mystery
- Japan's Asteroid Sample-Return Mission Has Problems
- NASA's Lunar Vision: The Devil's in the Details
October 4
- Space Tourist Greg Olsen Makes First Solo ISS Broadcast
- New Crew, Space Tourist Settle into ISS
- NASA Chief Clarifies Comments on Shuttle, Space Station
- Test Equipment Finds Life in Mars-like Conditions
- Rocketeers Rev Up For X Prize Cup
- The Space Cycle: New Way to Exercise in Orbit
October 3
- Rocket Racing: New League Promotes High-Flying Contest
- Wraps Come Off Cold War SpySat Program
- NASA Propulsion Strategy Reaches Back While Looking Ahead
- Delving into Dust Devils
- Third Space Tourist, Expedition 12 Crew Dock at Space Station
October 2
- Scientists Discover 10th Planet's Moon
October 1
- NASA Devises Shuttle External Tank Foam Fix
- Soyuz 15 Cosmonaut Sarafanov Dies at 63
- Liftoff! Third Space Tourist, New Crew Launches Toward Space Station