South Korea has announced that a 30-year-old robotics expert would be the country's first person in space when he flies on a Russian Soyuz capsule to the International Space Station next year.

Following recent media reports that U.S. astronauts have on occasion flown drunk, NASA will consider instituting limited testing of flight crews and employees, the agency's director said.

U.S. astronauts from the space shuttle Endeavour have installed a new storage platform on the space station.

An undersea mission simulating the space environment will provide data for development of tools to quickly assess stress, fatigue and cognitive fitness in preparation for performing critical mission tasks.

NASA report says that two astronauts have been drunk before mission launch. Despite of safety measures, they both flied on missions.

A computer for Endeavour shuttle was found damaged. Endeavour is scheduled for an August 7 mission, and NASA is going to repair the computer and launch the mission on the date.

Peggy Whitson will be the first woman astronaut to lead International Space Station mission. The mission is scheduled for October.

Atlantis and its crew of seven astronauts are scheduled to be back home on Thursday, but forecasters predict bad weather so the landing maybe delayed.

Atlantis astronauts have successfully installed solar arrays, they have repaired the Russian computer, and now they are coming back to the earth, hopefully.

Initially Atlantis' Mission was scheduled for eleven days, but two more days were added, because astronauts needed spacewalks.

While Atlantis were unfurling two new solar arrays at international space station, a Russian navigation computer hang up and caused a mass of problems to the crew.

Shuttle Atlantis successfully launched on Friday at 7:38 p.m. Eastern time to continue the building of International Space Station. Its flame brightened clear evening sky and left dense columns of smoke.