October 21, 2015 Unmanned Dragon spaceship splashes down near Southern California after supplying space station An unmanned Dragon spaceship splashed back to Earth on Tuesday after a successful supply run to the International Space Station but its owners were forced to scrub the launch of an important weather satellite on the other side of the continent.
October 21, 2015 NASA launching new Orion spacecraft on test flight, Thursday debut paving way for Mars visits NASA's quest to send astronauts out into the solar system begins this week with a two-laps-around-Earth test flight.
October 21, 2015 Comet lander still ‘talking,’ but scientists face race against time The European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft has regained contact with its history-making Philae comet lander, although scientists now face a race against time to extract as much data as possible from the probe before its battery runs out on Saturday.
October 21, 2015 Philae probe reaches comet, makes space history The European Space Agency's Philae lander has made space history by successfully reaching the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
October 21, 2015 Russia launches unmanned supply ship toward Space Station An unmanned Russian supply ship launched toward the International Space Station early Wednesday.
October 21, 2015 SpaceX to try rocket landing on floating ocean platform, Elon Musk says CAMBRIDGE, Mass.
October 21, 2015 Futuristic skintight spacesuits may shrink-wrap astronauts The spacesuits of the future might be totally alien-looking.
October 21, 2015 Astronauts getting 3-D printer at International Space Station NASA is sending a 3-D printer to the International Space Station in hopes that astronauts will be able to one day fix their spacecraft by cranking out spare parts on the spot.
October 21, 2015 'Global selfie' project will beam earthling message to space A new project aims to send a special message from Earth a type of global "selfie" into space, by uploading it to a spacecraft traveling through the cosmos on its way to Pluto.
October 21, 2015 US Air Force's secretive X-37B space plane passes 600 days in orbit The U.S. Air Force's mysterious unmanned space plane has winged beyond 600 days in orbit on a classified military mission that seems to have no end.