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NASA's Mars mission gets rolling from Cape Canaveral 27 Aug 2013 | 06:31 pm

Rocket that will blast off with NASA's next Mars-bound spacecraft arrives at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

Faith in rocket's progress stumbles 25 Aug 2013 | 07:09 am

NASA's new exploration rocket and spacecraft alrady face questions about whethery they will be ready for a first test flight from Kennedy Space Center in 2017.

Sierra Nevada tests Dream Chaser in Calif. desert 23 Aug 2013 | 06:32 pm

A Colorado company developing a spaceship to take astronauts to the International Space Station has run the craft through a series of tests at a NASA facility in California.

NASA releases new media, details of asteroid mission 23 Aug 2013 | 01:50 am

NASA has released new media that details the agency's goal to capture and study a near-Earth asteroid.

Spacewalking Russians encounter faulty equipment 22 Aug 2013 | 10:09 pm

A pair of spacewalking cosmonauts installed a new telescope mount on the International Space Station on Thursday despite a flaw in the device.

Former astronaut C. Gordon Fullerton dies at 76 22 Aug 2013 | 08:38 pm

C. Gordon Fullerton, a former astronaut who flew on two space shuttle missions and had an extensive career as a research and test pilot for NASA and the Air Force, died Wednesday, the space agency sai...