The 77 000kg Endeavour space shuttle has journeyed 19km to its new home at the California Science Centre where it will feature in a new exhibit.
Liu Yang (33), who has become the first Chinese female space traveler, said she was doing it on behalf of hundreds of millions of Chinese women.
China will launch a spacecraft to conduct its first manned space docking the latest in a plan aimed at giving the country a permanent space station.
Astronomers in Russia say contact with an extraterrestrial civilisation is inevitable, and that aliens will probably look just like humans.
Space experts tell US President Barack Obama that Nasa will have to scrap lunar and Mars missions without a big increase in budget.
South Africa aims to become a regional centre for space technology, Naledi Pandor said on Thursday.
The US late on Friday launched a space telescope whose three-year mission is to find Earth-like planets in the Milky Way galaxy.
If the country succeeded, it would become only the fourth — after the United States, Russia and China — to send a man into space.
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/ 20 October 2008
India began counting down on Monday to the launch of its first unmanned mission to the moon.
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/ 14 October 2008
The sons of a Russian cosmonaut and a United States astronaut met in space on Tuesday.
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/ 27 September 2008
Astronaut Zhai Zhigang became the first Chinese man to walk in space on Saturday, clambering out of China’s Shenzhou VII spacecraft.
The commander of the latest United States shuttle mission on Tuesday welcomed the advent of space tourism.
Astronauts opened up Japan’s new billion-dollar space-station lab on Thursday, then got ready for another spacewalk.