Report recommends laying off hundreds of station employees
Posted: Wed, Oct 17 10:44 AM ET (1444 GMT)
An independent committee will recommend to NASA that it lay off up to 1,000 people working on the International Space Station program, Florida Today...

News briefs: October 16
Posted: Wed, Oct 17 10:30 AM ET (1430 GMT)
Several building at the Kennedy Space Center were shut down Tuesday after several suspicious packages and traces of a white powder were discovered. At least...

Galileo survives Io flyby
Posted: Tue, Oct 16 7:59 PM ET (2359 GMT)
NASA's Galileo spacecraft completed a flyby of the volcanic inner Jovian moon of Io late Monday in good shape, project officials reported Tuesday. Galileo...

Rothenberg to retire from NASA
Posted: Tue, Oct 16 7:44 PM ET (2344 GMT)
Joseph Rothenberg, the NASA associate administrator for space flight, will retire in December, the space agency announced Tuesday. Rothenberg had served as associate administrator, responsible...

Defense Department buys exclusive rights to Ikonos Afghanistan images
Posted: Tue, Oct 16 10:43 AM ET (1443 GMT)
The US Defense Department has purchased exclusive rights to all images of Afghanistan taken by the Ikonos commercial remote sensing spacecraft, company and military officials...

News briefs: October 15
Posted: Tue, Oct 16 10:28 AM ET (1428 GMT)
Police are investigating whether a white powder found in a letter mailed to Arianespace's French headquarters contains anthrax, SPACE.com reported Monday. The headquarters...

Eight extrasolar planets discovered
Posted: Mon, Oct 15 7:35 PM ET (2335 GMT)
Astronomers announced Monday that they have discovered eight more planets orbiting other stars, including three whose orbits are similar to planets in our own solar...

Cosmonauts complete second ISS spacewalk
Posted: Mon, Oct 15 2:53 PM ET (1853 GMT)
Two Russian cosmonauts completed the second spacewalk outside the International Space Station in as many weeks Monday morning. Cosmonauts Vladimir Dezhurov and Mikhail Turin spent...

News briefs: October 13-14
Posted: Mon, Oct 15 12:55 AM ET (0455 GMT)
Chinese officials are planning to launch 30 satellites in the next five years, an official said recently. The Chinese media reported Saturday that Xu Fuxiang,...

Australia being considered as ISS CRV landing site
Posted: Mon, Oct 15 12:40 AM ET (0440 GMT)
A dormant launch site in Australia may become a landing site for crew return vehicles (CRVs) from the International Space Station, an Australian newspaper reported...