Track-It Space

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space shuttle Discovery has some leaky valves that could delay its launch next month. Read more

LONDON — Two former astronauts have said they are disappointed with the U.S. government's decision to cancel NASA's moon landing program. Read more

Mar. 12--CHARLESTON -- Pop culture icon Andy Warhol predicted that, in the future, everybody would be world famous for 15 minutes. Read more

Mar. 12--WASHINGTON -- Possible problems with a $2 billion physics experiment could delay the space shuttle's final flight and further complicate White House plans to retire the orbiter fleet this year. Read more

Mar. 12--WASHINGTON -- A group of House members says it makes more sense for NASA to slow the development of a new space shuttle rather than kill the program. Read more

LOS ANGELES -- A new rocket 18 stories tall and waiting to be launched from a pad in Cape Canaveral, Fla., could determine the fate of a private aerospace venture in Hawthorne, Calif. -- and even possibly NASA's space program. Read more

Mar. 11--HAMPTON -- It worked for Lance Armstrong and Roger Federer. Why not NASA?

That's the question engineers were tasked with when building a flight crew module made with composites -- the tough, lightweight laminates used to make high-end bicycles, tennis rackets and other sporting goods. Read more

Mar. 10--Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger already has taken one trip with the space shuttle Discovery, moving along at something like 1 mph. Read more

Mar. 9--When NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough returns to the International Space Station, it won't be aboard an American craft. Read more

Mar. 9--Members of Congress and a national physicians' group are going ape trying to halt researchers from zapping monkeys with radiation as part of a controversial Harvard Medical School experiment set to unfold in a primate lab at Belmont's McLean... Read more