Forecasters offered a favorable weather outlook Tuesday, as Endeavour’s astronauts prepared to end their 16-day mission to the International Space Station with a pre-dawn landing at the Kennedy Space Center. Endeavour’s return will shadow the roll out of shuttle Atlantis to Launch Pad 39 A, where the orbiter will under go preparations for a [...]

Living on Mars – New ideas for habitats Credit: NASA/Space Telescope Science Institute   Advanced textile materials may be just the ticket to help make a human mission to Mars a 21st century reality. Aeronautical and textile engineering students from North Carolina State University in Raleigh have tamed to tackle life-support issues to beef up [...]

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  The shuttle Endeavour crew departed the International Space Station late Sunday, ending a marathon visit that concluded with a successful flight test of the rendezvous and docking sensors NASA is developing for the shuttle’s successor, a four person capsule designed to launch astronauts on future missions to a range of deep space destinations. Mission [...]

  Endeavour’s “can do” crew began to wrap up a productive visit to the International Space Station on Saturday, with a flurry of upgrades to internal life support systems. Astronauts Mike Fincke and Greg Chamitoff, who marched through the mission’s fourth spacewalk on Friday, turned their efforts toward the carbon dioxide removal system in the [...]