ESA PR 48-2005. On 27 October ESA’s Director of Human Spaceflight, Microgravity and Exploration Mr Daniel Sacotte signed a contract for the launch preparations and first operations of the European ...

The Cygnus XL spacecraft looks a lot like Northrop's previous missions to the station. It has a service module manufactured ...

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) _ Forced to take a detour because of rain in Florida, space shuttle Endeavour and its international crew of seven landed in the Mojave Desert on Tuesday after ...

Maybe not as visible as its U.S. counterpart, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has contributed greatly over the decades to humanity's space exploration programs. The organization established itself as ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Space shuttle Endeavour roared into orbit Thursday, car-rying a giant robot arm that is needed to finish building the international space station. The midafternoon launch ...

Astronauts debuted the international space station's newest piece of equipment Saturday during a successful but very limited test. Space shuttle Discovery crew members Akihiko Hoshide and Karen Nyberg ...

The WET model of the European Robotic Arm (ERA) was comprehensively inspected and tested at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre near Moscow last week. ESA astronaut AndrÈ Kuipers donned a Russian ...

The capture by the International Space Station's robot arm came a day late because of an unexpected, but now resolved, ...

SpaceX lent a hand to fellow commercial cargo company Northrop Grumman once again with a launch Sunday evening on the Space ...

A supply ship arrived at the International Space Station on Thursday after a day’s delay due to a premature engine shutdown. Astronauts used the space station’s robot arm to pluck Northrop Grumman’s ...

Surprise! The space arm isn't being used in space. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Canada's famous robotic space arm just made a ...