SPACE

The space shuttle Endeavour has arrived at its final resting place after being decommissioned: the California Science Center in Los Angeles’ Exposition Park.

Felix Baumgartner leapt from a height no other man has dared, and lived to tell the tale.

“Fearless” Felix Baumgartner developed a reputation for himself long before millions of people tuned into the Red Bull Stratos live stream to watch him skydive from outer space. The 43-year-old daredevil not only survived his 23-mile free fall jump from space Sunday but broke the speed of sound while wearing nothing but a helmet and space suit.

When “Fearless” Felix Baumgartner tries to break the speed of sound by jumping from 23 miles above the earth’s surface Sunday he’ll be in the company of other daredevils throughout history that have put their lives on the line for the sake of adventure.

Felix Baumgartner completed his record jump from 120,00 feet Sunday, breaking the sound barrier.

Sarah Brightman announced Wednesday that space tourism company Space Adventures Ltd. will arrange for her to fly on a Russian Soyuz capsule to the International Space Station.

Felix Baumgartner aborted a scheduled space jump on Tuesday citing "gusty winds." The jump, which was part of the Red Bull Stratos mission and had been expected to shatter several records, could be postponed until Thursday.

Plans for Felix Baumgartner's Red Bull Stratos Mission have been delayed. The team said the space jump was delayed Tuesday due to strong stratospheric winds.

Felix Baumgartner's space jump will be aired live on video when the skydiver embarks on a record-breaking dive to Earth on Tuesday -- thanks to a live stream sponsored by Red Bull.

Nobody alive on Oct. 4, 1957, will ever forget the launch of Sputnik 1, the first successful earth-orbiting satellite, by the Soviet Union.

Foursquare now has its very first check-in from the surface of another world. As NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity was exploring the Red Planet, it took the time to let Earthlings know it was in Gale Crater via Foursquare on Wednesday.

A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying U.S. astronaut Joseph Acaba and Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin landed on the Kazakh steppe at 8:53 local time (0253 GMT) Monday.

Some critics question the need for a poor region like Africa to even consider such an expensive project as going into space.

The Slooh Space Camera is offering a free live stream of the month's second blue moon. You can check out the second full moon in the month of August, courtesy of Slooh, below.

In the stellar nursery near the star Rho Ophiuchi, located in the constellation Ophiuchus, researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute detected signatures of the simplest possible sugar in nature, glycolaldehyde.

Two of ancient India’s most important and grandest Sanskrit epics, The Mahabharata and The Ramayana, vividly describe giant, magnificent space vessels which took fantastic voyages to distant stars and planets.

Last week’s successful landing of the Mars Science Laboratory, better-known as Curiosity, represented a triumph in aeronautical and electrical engineering. Now the nine-foot, six-wheeled rover will use its instruments to make “Mars-shaking” discoveries in geology, meteorology and chemistry.

The Perseid Meteor shower peaked Saturday night above the US skyline with rates as high as 100 per hour offering spectacular views of shooting stars as meteors entered Earth's atmosphere.

Three days into its mission, the Mars Science Laboratory, known as Curiosity, is continuing to dazzle scientists and specialists with its first data reports from the red plant. Still more technology companies have acknowledged their participation in the NASA project

The orbiter should assume its position around Mars by September 2014.

A number of companies, led by Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic, have already started taking bookings for suborbital travel, with a view to launching the first flights in late 2013.