Nov 20th, 2008 · NASA's aging shuttle fleet is expected to be retired before the agency has a new space transportation system in place. The GAO has identified this spaceship gap as one of 13 urgent issues facing the new administration.
Mar 14th, 2008 · Today's housing market is a buyer's market, which means there's plenty to choose from, including a mountain house in Tennessee that looks like it dropped in from another galaxy. Melissa Block describes the many amenities of Chattanooga's Spaceship House, which goes up for auction Saturday.
May 15th, 2007 · A handful of companies are vying to be the first to take paying tourists for brief rides to the edge of space. Some, like Virgin Galactic, have built sleek spaceships for the task. But a company in Oklahoma is trying to get into the game with an old Lear Jet fitted with an Atlas rocket engine.
Sep 1st, 2006 · NASA announces it is entering into a multi-billion dollar contract with a team led by Lockheed Martin to build a generation of spaceships capable of carrying astronauts to the moon. The vehicles -- described as "Apollo on steroids" -- will replace the space shuttle fleet. Lockheed had been in intense competition for the contract with a team led by Northrop Grumman and Boeing.
Jul 7th, 2006 · Robert Siegel speaks with space shuttle pilot Mark Kelly and shuttle commander Steve Lindsey in the midst of their mission aboard the Shuttle Discovery. The crew recently executed a maneuver that enables them to overcome a balky thermostat on one of the spaceship's thrusters. But the pair say they believe the spaceflight program is worth the huge expense required to put humans in space.
Jun 27th, 2006 · What is it about dot-com titans and rocket ships? Jeff Bezos (Amazon.com), Paul Allen (Microsoft), Elon Musk (Paypal) and John Carmack (Doom video games) are just the most famous on the growing list of middle-aged tech giants who want to build private spaceships.
Nov 10th, 2005 · Space scientists say they've come up with a novel way of a preventing a killer asteroid from hitting the Earth -- without laying a hand on it. A spaceship called a "gravity tractor" could pull the asteroid off course just by hovering near its surface.
Aug 5th, 2005 · It's not just a space suit. The 240-pound Extra-Vehicular Mobility Unit is a "one-man spaceship," says Ed Francis, a vice president at space-suit maker Hamilton Sundstrand. He tells Steve Inskeep what Discovery's spacewalkers are wearing on this mission.