NASA's greatest hits: Musical moonlighting
Music and space travel have been pairing up since the early days of NASA, including hundreds of wake-up tunes, a moonwalking crooner and even an orbiting duet. Now, astronaut Chris Hadfield plans to do...
View ArticleSpaceX Dragon triumph: Only the beginning
SpaceX made history Friday as the first private company to successfully reach an orbiting space station - but its competitors aren't far behind. Blue Origin, the commercial space outfit founded by...
View ArticleChuck Yeager pulls no punches on space travel
Editor's note: It's been nearly 65 years since Chuck Yeager became the first human to fly faster than sound. Now 89, the legendary test pilot portrayed in the 1983 movie of Tom Wolfe's book "The Right...
View ArticleStar-crossed: How to see Venus cross the sun
Whatever you do, for God's sake, don't look at it with your naked eyes! Today, the planet Venus is crossing between the Earth and the sun - and millions of people will be craning their necks and...
View ArticleIs Dream Chaser the new space shuttle?
Will we ever get a space plane? Read our responses to some of the comments this story received. Have you been listening to all the kvetching and tooth-gnashing about America paying Russia $65-to-$70...
View ArticleOverheard on CNN.com: New shuttle needs space plane 'coolness'
Editor's note: This post is part of the Overheard on CNN.com series, a regular feature that examines interesting comments and thought-provoking conversations posted by the community. CNN commenters -...
View ArticleChallenger daughter's journey to know her hero dad
Joy McNair has a wonderful memory of herself as a toddler running toward her astronaut father as he returns home. But it's not her memory. She borrowed it from someone else. "My mother has told me...
View ArticleCNN launches balloon mission to 'near space'
Saturday, June 23, 9:49 a.m.ET update: CNN's ground crew is tracking the "Yeager" video-equipped weather balloon across Georgia. You can track it too by clicking here and entering this code into the...
View Article'Muscle guys' who brought Apollo 11 home
By Thom Patterson, CNN (CNN) - As he stood on the floating Apollo 11 capsule, Navy SEAL John Wolfram was very aware that the safety of the first men to walk on the moon was in his hands. The whole...
View ArticleMars rover: Is all this really necessary?
Hey Mars! We're back! Hope you don't mind if we cruise around in our scientific SUV to grab some historic data and snap some breathtaking images. Oh, and we might do some Martian doughnuts in your...
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