Space shuttle Atlantis may be permanently stuck on earth, but the private space industry is preparing for blastoff.
Private firms are competing to dominate a new market, and to boldly go where no company has gone before.
The U.S. delivered the last time there was a space race. This time those who want to see the country beat the Russians and other space competition may be relying on the private sector.
An irony: the U.S., which won the moon race to symbolize the superiority of democracy/free markets vs. communism/centrally-planned economy, will now relinquish delivery of humans into space to Russia.
On July 8, NASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off for its final mission, a 12-day mission to the International Space Station. The return of the Space shuttle marked the end the 30-year shuttle era.
Atlantis space shuttle landed at 5:58 a.m. ET this morning at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, signaling the bittersweet end of NASA's decades-long shuttle program.
A new moon orbiting dwarf planet Pluto was discovered by scientists with the Space Telescope Science Institute (STSI), hinting at future surprises for the NASA probe.
Space shuttle Atlantis landed for the final time at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 21, marking an end to the 30-year era of NASA's space shuttle program, but disasters that occurred in the history of the program still remain on our minds.
The space shuttle Atlantis lands and officially ends the space shuttle program after 30 years.
NASA spacecraft Atlantis landed successfully on runway 15 of the shuttle landing facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 5:57 am EDT. The landing marks the end of the space shuttle program.
The space shuttle Atlantis has landed -- for one last time. After a 26-year career and 307 days spent in space, shuttle Atlantis touched down for the last time at approximately 5:57 am Eastern. It landed at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
NASA spacecraft Atlantis has landed successfully on runway 15 of the shuttle landing facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 5:56 am EDT. The landing marks the end of the space shuttle program.
NASA space shuttle Atlantis has been in space 32 times since 1985, and orbited the earth 4,648 times, but she's about to make her final landing at 5:56 am EDT at Kennedy Space Center's shuttle landing facility.
As the United States prepares to end its space shuttle program, technologies developed to nurture the reusable spaceships through three decades of flight will live on in day-to-day use on Earth.
The distant, icy dwarf planet Pluto has been hiding its fourth moon -- temporarily designated P4 -- that came to the view of NASA astronomers who were using the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 ultraviolet visible instrument.
Atlantis, the last U.S. space shuttle is returning back home.
As the space shuttle era ends, what's next for space exploration? How about private citizens in space.
Check out amazing images of the southern lights from space.
Bret, 2011 Atlantic hurricane season's second tropical storm, was born in the northwestern Bahamas on July 17, and continues to intensify.
Astronauts took amazing photos of the Aurora Australis phenomenon from space
The Aurora Australis (Southern Lights) was caught by photographers on space shuttle Atlantis last week as it enveloped the Southern Hemisphere of Earth.
The four astronauts aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis started their ninth gravity-free day with a special message from songstress Beyoncé Knowles, who gave a surprise inspirational message to the astronauts aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis Sunday morning.
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