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June 14, 2007 · Mission managers in Russia on Thursday have partially restored the computers that control the international space station's guidance and oxygen and water supplies that failed completely Wednesday.
The space shuttle will stay up for two more days to repair damaged heat shielding.
NASA engineers may send an astronaut on a space walk this week to fix a loose insulating blanket.
June 9, 2007 · School bus driver Peter Homer is the first-ever winner of NASA's innovation competition. The former aerospace engineer designed and built a new and improved astronaut glove with about $500 of materials and his mother-in-law's 1950s Singer sewing machine.
June 7, 2007 · NASA's Johnson Space Center invited The Kitchen Sisters to visit its "hidden kitchen." On the eve of NASA's scheduled launch of space shuttle Atlantis, The Kitchen Sisters present a brief history of space food.
May 31, 2007 · NASA administrator Michael Griffin defends the space agency's programs, including plans for a permanent moon base and manned missions to Mars. He also says that the agency has no authorization to "take actions to affect climate change in either one way or another."
May 30, 2007 · There is a prevailing myth about what a blue moon is. Thursday, May 31, will bring the second full moon of the month. But that does not constitute a blue moon, as is popularly believed. Robert Siegel talks with Kelly Beatty, editor of Night Sky magazine and executive editor of Sky and Telescope.
May 30, 2007 · Astronomers have announced the discovery of 28 more planets outside our solar system. Although the new finds are Jupiter-like "gas giants" with no solid surface, they are all part of multiple planet systems like our own. Smaller, Earth-like planets could also be in those systems, but for now, they're too small to detect.
May 25, 2007 · A veteran space reporter takes Kennedy Space Center's new state-of-the-art ride ... for a ride. Pat Duggins says that thankfully, the simulated shuttle launch isn't completely authentic.
May 10, 2007 · A model of the James Webb Space Telescope is touring the country. The real telescope will be sent to a spot nearly 1 million miles away. It's job is to capture the most penetrating images yet of the early universe. Web Extra: Hubble's Views of the Universe
May 11, 2007 · Before John Glenn orbited the Earth, a small group of female pilots underwent secret testing for spaceflight. Known as the Mercury 13, they didn't make it into space. But the women are being honored for paving the way for future female astronauts. Web Extra: Timeline, More from the Interview
May 7, 2007 · NASA announces the discovery of a massive exploding faraway star — the brightest supernova astronomers have ever seen. Scientists say the giant star has shined about five times brighter than any previously seen supernova.
April 25, 2007 · A team of astronomers has discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a red dwarf star 20.5 light-years away. It is the first planet outside of our solar system that could be home to liquid water — or maybe even life.
April 21, 2007 · Astronaut Sunita Williams ran the Boston Marathon, sort of, while strapped to a treadmill orbiting the earth on International Space Station.
April 19, 2007 · The longest-running project in the history of NASA will have to run a little longer. The $750 million satellite experiment known as Gravity Probe B was designed to test Einstein's theory of gravity. But small electrical charges have thrown off the test's precision instruments.
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