AFP - Space shuttle Atlantis astronauts aboard the International Space Station delayed their second spacewalk Saturday after being jolted awake by a false alarm, NASA said.
SPACE.com - Astronaut Randy Bresnik may be expecting his wife Rebecca to
give birth, but that hasn't shaken his focus for a planned spacewalk outside
the International Space Station today to install new video antennas and other
equipment.
SPACE.com - NASA has
joined astronaut Randy Bresnik, who is in orbit now, in the waiting game for
the birth his daughter, just one day before the spaceflyer is poised to make
his first spacewalk.
AFP - NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik entered an unusual space countdown on Friday as he waited onboard the International Space Station for the birth of his daughter back on Earth.
SPACE.com - Astronauts on the linked shuttle Atlantis and International
Space Station said Friday that they're not worried about recent false alarms
that disrupted their sleep with erroneous reports of calamity.
SPACE.com - WASHINGTON - The camera that captured many of the Hubble Space
Telescope's most famous images and the "contact lenses" that
focused the observatory's flawed mirror debuted Wednesday at the
Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. along with
the first phase of a new interactive gallery devoted to humans living and
working in space.
SPACE.com - NASA's stuck Mars rover Spirit took a tiny step Thursday,
its first progress in months, during the latest attempt to extricate the robot
from deep Martian sand.
SPACE.com - An aerospace engineer from Maine, the reigning champion of
NASA's Astronaut Glove Challenge, held onto his title Thursday to win first
prize in a competition to build a better space glove than those worn by
astronauts today.
AP - Russia lacks a viable program for developing a new spacecraft and risks losing its place as a leader in space travel, a veteran Russian cosmonaut said in an interview published Friday.
Reuters - Shuttle Atlantis astronaut Randy Bresnik can be forgiven if he's having a tough time focusing on work -- his wife is due to give birth on Friday to a baby girl.
SPACE.com - It may be
the mother lode of all bad timing: Atlantis shuttle astronaut Randy Bresnik is stuck
at the International Space Station, hundreds of miles from his pregnant wife
Rebecca, who is expected to give birth to a baby girl as early as today.
SPACE.com - NASA offered a total of $400,000 to inventors who can
make stronger and more dexterous spacesuit gloves Thursday in the second Astronaut
Glove Challenge.
SPACE.com - Two
astronauts breezed through the first spacewalk of their mission Thursday as
they upgraded the International Space Station with a spare antenna and other
gear.
SPACE.com - Teflon-coated frying pans may scratch easily, but a souped-up version, a
nanomaterial 10,000 times more durable than the ordinary non-stick stuff, is
headed for the space station to see if it could someday coat the mechanical
moving parts of spacecraft.
SPACE.com - Two astronauts will step out of the International Space
Station today on the first of three spacewalks to stock the orbiting lab with
spare parts.
SPACE.com - A
fireball over Utah overnight Tuesday was the talk of the state. And an asteroid
that could have delivered nearly half the energy of the Hiroshima atom bomb
whizzed past Earth earlier this month, NASA reported recently. Meanwhile, a
meteor shower dazzled skywatchers around the globe early Tuesday morning.
SPACE.com - The space shuttle Atlantis and its crew of six arrived at
the International Space Station (ISS) Wednesday to drop off some massive spare
parts for the orbiting laboratory.