Dr. Qian Xuesen passed away in a hospital in Beijing this past Saturday, October 31st. He was 98, and considered the father of China's space program.

For the first time in a generation, NASA has a new rocket waiting for launch time. Weather is now the only thing holding back the launch of the Ares I-X rocket. NASA's first flight test of its Ares I-X booster rocket is only slated to last two minutes. Cloudy skies are holding up the test launch of NASA's newest rocket. NASA has until noon to get the experimental Ares I-X flight going.

The Orionid meteor shower tonight should be beautiful. It is the second of two metero showers that occur each year as a result of Earth passing through debris released by Halley's Comet. Tonight the sky will be moonless, providing stargazers with a excellent chance for a good view of the display.

Early this morning, NASA crashed two spacecraft into the surface of the moon in the search of water on the Earth's natural satellite. The Internet is buzzing today with reports of blowing up the moon or bombing the moon.The LCROSS Centaur and Spacecraft impacted the moon at approximately 7:30 a.m. EDT. A report on the initial data will be revealed at the Post Impact News Conference at 10:00 a.m. EDT on NASA TV.

If you ever watched the old series "Space: 1999," this is somewhat reminiscent of that corny science fiction show. NASA has planned for some time to slam two spacecraft into the moon in an attempt the find water, and they have released animation of what the "NASA moon bombing," scheduled for Friday, will look like.

It's hard to imagine a clown being a billionaire, but here he is. In reality he's far more, but a Soyuz spacecraft carrying Canadian Guy Laliberte and two crew mates lifted off on schedule Wednesday headed for the International Space Station, while his partner, former model Claudia Barilla watched with tears streaming down her face.

Detouring because of stormy weather, the space shuttle Discovery and its seven astronauts took a detoured to California, blasting Southern California with its customary sonic boom before landing safely in at Edwards Air Force Base.

At 8:54 pm ET Sunday afternoon, the space shuttle Discovery docked with the space station with special cargo COLBERT treadmill aboard. Discovery lifted off with a brilliant show against the Friday night sky loaded with supplies, science equipment and the treadmill named after Comedy Central host Steven Colbert.