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.
Nov 14th, 2008 · A new toilet and fridge will soon be orbiting the Earth. Astronauts on board space shuttle Endeavour will be taking a load of new equipment up to the International Space Station, to get everything ready so that next year the station can double its crew from three to six. The space shuttle is scheduled to liftoff Friday night.
Nov 7th, 2008 · The legendary oral historian explains how an encounter on an airport shuttle restored his faith in the power of the human voice. Terkel, who died last week, recorded this interview inside a mobile StoryCorps recording booth that was parked in his driveway.
Oct 9th, 2008 · The Nobel Prize for chemistry was awarded this week to three scientists working in the United States for their work on a jellyfish protein that glows in the dark. But the scientist who found the gene for this protein, and gave it to the eventual Nobel winners, is no longer working in the field. He drives a shuttle bus for an auto dealership.
Jul 30th, 2008 · Former Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic was extradited Wednesday to The Hague, where he will face war crimes charges. Stefan Niksic, a journalist with Nin — an independent weekly in Belgrade — talks with Renee Montagne.
Jun 23rd, 2008 · For astronauts from Houston, who are unable to vote by absentee ballot, NASA has made it possible to cast their votes from a space shuttle or the International Space Station. NASA created special software that allows local election officials to create a ballot that is transmitted to the spacecraft.
Jun 14th, 2008 · Seven astronauts have wrapped up a mission to the international space station to deliver a Japanese science module. The Kibo lab is now the biggest room on the space station.
Jun 10th, 2008 · A bill making its way through Congress would force NASA to add one more shuttle mission to its schedule so that a billion-dollar anti-matter and cosmic-ray detector can be brought to the space station. The 15,000-pound instrument was built largely with foreign funding, making it a painful project for NASA to abandon. But the agency says there is no room for it on the currently planned flights, which are full with higher-priority items, including backup hardware for the space station.