Topic: Cape Canaveral

Travels with mother: In search of the world

Anne D'Innocenzio has traveled with her mother since she was a little girl. But at 80-something, her mother, ever fearless, is beginning to slow and told her that her traveling days are coming to an end. 

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Tamed Dragon supply ship arrives at space station (+video)

A privately owned Dragon capsule arrived a day late at the International Space Station on Sunday, delivering a ton of supplies with high-flying finesse after a shaky start to the mission.

SpaceX addresses hitch that could have put mission to space station in doubt (+video)

Friday's launch represents the second formal resupply flight that SpaceX has undertaken under a $1.6 billion contract with NASA to ferry goods to and from the International Space Station.

Cosmic rays' mysterious origin? Supernovae to blame, study confirms.

A team of researchers found the 'unique, smoking-gun signature' of the creation of cosmic rays in the expanding shells cast off by supernovae.

NASA 'Space Network' receives boost from satellite

NASA launched a new communication satellite from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Wednesday evening. This satellite is one of three expected to reach space between now and 2015, upgrading the agency's communication network. 

SpaceX founder Musk eyes 'self-sustaining' Mars civilization

In Musk's vision, the ambitious Mars settlement program would start with a pioneering group of fewer than 10 people, who would journey to the Red Planet aboard a huge reusable rocket powered by liquid oxygen and methane.

Campaign 2012: Is Obama betting it all on Bill?

There's no arguing that former President Bill Clinton has been an asset on the campaign trail for President Barack Obama. In the final days of the campaign, especially in the battleground states, Obama is leaning heavily on Clinton.

Space shuttle Endeavour: A final 2 m.p.h. mission through Los Angeles

The space shuttle Endeavour began its 2-mph crawl through streets of Los Angeles at about 2 a.m. Friday. A retired laser scientist uses Endeavour's terrestrial crawl as a teaching moment for Los Angeles school children.

SpaceX Dragon: Private space capsule delivers precious cargo to space station

The unmanned Dragon spacecraft was captured by station astronauts using a robotic arm after an apparently flawless approach by the cargo-laden space capsule.

Space shuttle Endeavour touches down (+video)

The space shuttle Endeavour landed in California on its way to its final resting place. On the way, it made a flyover in Tucson, Arizona where former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly, Endeavour's retired commander, were watching. 

Space shuttle Endeavour makes layover in Houston, next stop L.A. (+video)

Endeavour landed in Houston while riding piggyback atop a modified Boeing 747 jumbo jet to end the first leg of its three-day journey to Los Angeles, where the retired space shuttle will ultimately be transformed into a museum exhibit at the California Science Center.

NASA space radiation probes launch delayed 24 hours

NASA launch director Tim Dunn said the launch countdown was going well until his team spotted a frequency drift in the tracking beacon used by the Air Force's Eastern Range to track the Atlas 5 rocket after liftoff.

NASA test spacecraft explodes in fiery crash at Cape Canaveral

An experimental lunar lander called Morpheus toppled over shortly after liftoff Thursday, whereupon it crashed into the ground and exploded in a blazing fireball.

NASA's Mars rover makes daring touchdown on Red Planet (+video)

An ambitious maneuver involving an enormous supersonic parachute and a rocket-powered sky crane safely delivered the one-ton, $2.5 billion dollar robot to the surface of Mars.

Everything you need to know about the Mars rover Curiosity (+video)

How does the rover get its power for roving? How many cameras does it have? Here are the essential facts about Curiosity, NASA's Mars rover that is scheduled to land on the Red Planet on Sunday night.

NASA's Curiosity rover completes crucial course correction en route to Mars (+video)

NASA's car sized Curiosity Mars Science Lab fired its thrusters to set in on course for its scheduled touchdown in the Red Planet's Gale Crater, where, if the landing goes well, it will begin searching for signs of habitability.

Orion space capsule: NASA gets ready for 2014 test launch

NASA has unveied the brand new Orion space capsule, which is expected to have its first test launch in spring 2014.

NASA hopes Mars rover landing will be 'grand and profound'

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, which is scheduled to touch down on the Red Planet on August 6, is the most advanced robot ever sent to another world.

World's most powerful rocket launches secret US satellite

The second classified mission for the National Reconnaissance Office to launch in nine days blasted off with the most powerful liquid hydrogen rocket engines ever built.  The spy agency plans a third launch in August. 

US spy agency undertakes 'critical national security launch'

An Atlas 5 rocket successfully launched a National Reconnaissance Office spy satellite on Monday, just days after the Air Force's secret X-37B space plane returned from its secret 15-month mission in orbit. 

Mysterious Air Force space plane lands after 15 months in orbit

An unmanned space plane built by Boeing, the second of its kind, returns to Earth after 463 days in orbit for a clandestine mission.

As Dragon capsule splashes down, SpaceX begins to convert skeptics (+video)

SpaceX completed a historic demonstration mission to the space station when its Dragon capsule splashed down safely into the Pacific Thursday. Next up, the real thing. 

SpaceX Dragon cargo ship splashes down in Pacific Ocean (+video)

The SpaceX Dragon capsule, a privately owned spacecraft, returned to Earth Thursday from the International Space Station

SpaceX Dragon capsule homeward bound

The SpaceX Dragon capsule will splash down in the Pacific this morning. The Dragon capsule is returning with nearly 1,400 pounds of old space station equipment and some science samples.