NASA: CONTOUR may have broken up
Posted: Fri, Aug 16 8:50 PM ET (0050 GMT)
An image from a groundbased telescope suggests that NASA's CONTOUR spacecraft may have broken up, project officials said late Friday. Mission director Robert Farquhar...

Bass resumes training, faces late August money deadline
Posted: Fri, Aug 16 1:56 PM ET (1756 GMT)
The Russian space agency Rosaviakosmos allowed pop star and would-be space tourist Lance Bass to resume training on Friday, but said they had set...

Shortened ISS spacewalk completed
Posted: Fri, Aug 16 1:43 PM ET (1743 GMT)
An American astronaut and Russian cosmonaut conducted a delayed, shortened spacewalk outside the International Space Station Friday morning. Valery Korzun and Peggy Whitson started the...

CONTOUR remains silent
Posted: Fri, Aug 16 10:16 AM ET (1416 GMT)
Mission controllers have yet to reestablish communications with NASA's CONTOUR spacecraft, more than 24 hours after it was scheduled to fire its engine and...

News briefs: August 15
Posted: Fri, Aug 16 8:16 AM ET (1216 GMT)
EchoStar reported a second-quarter profit on Thursday. The direct television broadcaster said it recorded a profit of $37 million, or $.08 a share, in...

Bass space flight training suspended
Posted: Thu, Aug 15 2:03 PM ET (1803 GMT)
The Russian space agency Rosaviakosmos has suspended the training would-be space tourist Lance Bass had been undergoing because of a lack of funding, according...

Contact lost with CONTOUR spacecraft
Posted: Thu, Aug 15 10:42 AM ET (1442 GMT)
CONTOUR project officials said Thursday morning that they have lost contact with the spacecraft hours after it was scheduled to perform a critical maneuver. CONTOUR...

News briefs: August 14
Posted: Thu, Aug 15 10:33 AM ET (1433 GMT)
An armchair astronomer has discovered a comet in images taken by the SOHO spacecraft, the 500th comet spotted by the solar observing spacecraft. Rainer Kracht,...

Business briefs: August 14
Posted: Thu, Aug 15 10:18 AM ET (1418 GMT)
Stock in two satellite companies dropped sharply Wednesday. Sirius Satellite Radio shares fell 44 percent to close at just $0.76 as investors reacted to...

More doubts about Bass space flight
Posted: Wed, Aug 14 2:20 PM ET (1820 GMT)
Russia has raised doubts that it will include pop star Lance Bass on the crew of a Soyuz taxi flight set for launch in October,...