When you've been flying around on the International Space Station for over five months, I guess you start to look for fresh ways to occupy your time. Astronaut Don Pettit has decided to put his musical passion to work, by creating the Orbital Didgeridoo.
If we're going to make friends with non-humans as we travel through space, we had better get used to shaking their hands. NASA got in some practice yesterday, when astronaut Dan Burbank shook hands with Robonaut on board the International Space Station.
While NASA plans to send the businesslike Robonaut 2 up to the International Space Station, the Japanese have developed their own far more social robot for the ISS.
Are you getting up early this Saturday or Sunday morning (or staying up late)? Gaze into the heavens and you'll see the International Space Station (ISS) and space shuttle Endeavor orbiting the earth in close formation at 18,000 mph. Sky...
The International Space Station just got an upgrade from the Endeavor crew: a huge new Cupola, a window pointed down at the world that offers a beautiful view of everything below. It looks like something straight out of Star Wars,...
After seeing the kind of amazing space photography astronauts have been sending back lately, we were eagerly waiting for the crew of the International Space Station to lock down the $27 million domed module. Space station commander Jeffrey Williams led...
Astronauts José Hernández and Soichi Noguchi really know how to make us Earth-bound folks jealous. That gorgeous shot you see up above wasn't taken from a plane — it was taken from space. Also "frooom spaaace," which you should read...
When Expedition 22 launched yesterday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, it carried not only three astronauts destined for the International Space Station, but raw seafood as well. Apparently that's what happens when you train a trio of astronauts in...