“International Space Station” on The Daily Caller

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Private rocket maker SpaceX aimed for a Tuesday liftoff after fixing the engine problem that caused a launch abort over the weekend, stalling the world’s first commercial space station supply flight. (more)

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private U.S. company has set a new date for launching a cargo ship to the International Space Station. (more)

The private spaceflight company SpaceX successfully test fired the rocket that will launch the first-ever commercial space capsule to the International Space Station today (April 30), after a slight delay that was caused by an apparent computer glitch. (more)

SpaceX confirmed it plans to launch a rocket and capsule on May 7 in a historic first flight of a private spaceship to the International Space Station. (more)

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private U.S. company has delayed launching a cargo ship to the International Space Station. (more)

The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Manufacturing subpanel will continue its series of hearings on consumer privacy on Thursday morning. Chairman Mary Bono Mack (R-Calif.) recently met with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and other Silicon Valley leaders and has yet to tip her hand as to whether she thinks new laws are necessary to protect consumers’ privacy online. (more)

When the towers of the World Trade Center fell on September 11, 2001, one American was not on the planet. (more)

Russia’s space agency announced Wednesday that the International Space Station — a space base the world’s scientists and billions of U.S. tax dollars helped build and maintain some 200 miles above the surface of the Earth — will be de-orbited and allowed to sink into the Pacific Ocean in 2020, just like its Russian predecessor, Mir. (more)

Nasa is considering using lasers to deflect space junk around Earth and stop it colliding with satellites. (more)

Space spending has long been the multibillion-dollar government project that is rarely discussed and even more infrequently brought up as a primary focus by fiscal conservatives. (more)

Before the year is out, SpaceX will likely have conducted the first orbital demonstration of the Dragon capsule, which is intended to transport cargo, and ultimately humans, to the International Space Station (ISS). Next year, Orbital Sciences is expected to launch its cargo vessel, Cygnus. By 2014, two more spacecraft, the Dream Chaser and CST-100 are on track to have maiden voyages, launched by the Sierra Nevada Corporation and Boeing, respectively. And even more spacecraft are being developed by companies such as Blue Origin and PlanetSpace, as well as suborbital vehicles being built by Virgin Galactic, XCOR, and others. (more)

Call it “American Idol” in space: NASA has launched a new contest that allows the public to pick – or even create – wake-up songs for astronauts flying on the agency’s two final space shuttle missions. (more)

Astronauts who spend months in space become as physically weak as 80-year-olds, a study has found. (more)

Spokesmen from NASA and the White House both issued statements in response to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden recent comments that President Obama had told him that it was his  “foremost” mission to make the Muslim world “feel good about their historic contribution to science…and math and engineering.” (more)

The federal employees at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing know darn well why they go to work in the morning. (more)

A cargo vessel which failed to dock with the International Space Station is under control, a Russian space agency official has said. (more)

In February, the Obama administration announced its fiscal year budget, which proposed to eliminate the NASA human space flight program, called Constellation, and instead rely on the commercial space industry and other countries to ferry future astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). (more)

AFP – There is no room for romance on board the cozy confines of the International Space Station, a NASA space shuttle commander said Monday when asked what would happen if astronauts had sex in space. (more)

Sometimes you’re just at the right place at the right time. Astronauts aboard the ISS experienced just such a moment when they captured this captivating image of a rare aurora australis over the Southern Indian Ocean likely caused by a coronal mass ejection from the sun late last month. (more)

In his weekly email update, Sen. George LeMieux writes: (more)