Articles
1st Private Cargo Run to Space Station Delayed
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The first commercial cargo run to the International Space Station has been delayed again for more software testing. Space Exploration...
Travel to Mars, Cheap: Efforts Underway to Make The Red Planet Budget-Friendly
An American rocket company is partnering with NASA to make missions to Mars an easy-on-the-wallet endeavor, a public sign of the enterprising private sector that...
The Ares Liftoff: Learning from Space Shuttle Mistakes
With the future of the space agency up in the air, NASA can certainly use the good p.r. that will flow from Wednesday's picture-perfect test launch of its Ares...
Asia's Space Race
The second-ever manned Chinese space flight is slated to carry two astronauts on a five-day journey circling Earth, while they conduct experiments on pig sperm...
Why We Shouldn't Go to Mars
Two centuries ago, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark left St. Louis to explore the new lands acquired in the Louisiana Purchase," George W. Bush said,...
Photo Essays
The Labor of Space Exploration
Photographer Michael Soluri documents the inner workings of the U.S. space program and the men and women who toil there
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Gagarin's Great Feat: 50 Space-Race Highs and Lows
TIME's Jeffrey Kluger examines the high and low points of space exploration in the years before and since Yuri Gagarin went into orbit
