BY MARCIA DUNN
AP Aerospace Writer

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Space shuttle Atlantis arrived at the International Space Station on Wednesday for a weeklong stay, and the astronauts quickly unloaded a huge platform full of spare parts needed to keep the…

BY MIKE STARK
Associated Press Writer

PROMONTORY, Utah (AP) — The first test of NASA’s powerful moon rocket went off without a problem Thursday as more than a million pounds of propellant ignited in a split second, sending a towering plume of…

BY MARCIA DUNN
AP Aerospace Writer

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Bad weather prevented space shuttle Discovery from returning home Thursday and kept its astronauts circling the world for at least an extra day.

Mission Control skipped the first landing attempt because of…

BY KENNETH CHANG
New York Times

Members of the U.S. government panel reviewing NASA’s human spaceflight program said Tuesday that the life of the International Space Station should be extended past its planned demise in 2016.

After the shuttle Endeavour, which undocked…

By Mark K. Matthews and Robert Block
The Orlando Sentinel

NASA’s goal of putting astronauts back on the moon by 2020 is all but impossible to achieve, a presidential panel was told Wednesday.

An independent analysis concluded there is little hope NASA could…

NASA restored video: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/hd/apollo11.html

By SETH BORENSTEIN
AP Science Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) — With the help of Hollywood, those historic, grainy images of the first men on the moon never looked better. NASA unveiled refurbished video Thursday of the July 20,…

BY KENNETH CHANG
New York Times

NASA’s program to send astronauts back to the moon by 2020 is often called “Apollo on steroids.”

To detractors, this is a description of disparagement — treading the same path as 40 years ago, only with bigger,…