University of Nottingham astronomers will be studying icy cosmic dust millions of light years away — using the biggest space telescope ever built.

TC-1, one of the two satellites of the CNSA/ESA Double Star mission, was decommissioned on 14 October as its designed orbit lifetime came to an end. The satellite re-entered Earth’s atmosphere and turned to dust during its descent.

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

NASA will launch Phoenix spacecraft in August to uncover Mars’s mystery. Astronauts will dig planet’s surface hoping to find underground ice.

Dawn’s asteroid mission to Vesta and Ceres is delayed. The spacecraft launch now is scheduled for September.

NASA plans to launch a mission to the two asteroids that are between Mars and Jupiter this Sunday.

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.

NASA resolved problems of the lines connecting external fuel tank to Atlantis on Wednesday. Now the first space shuttle is getting ready for the launch on Friday at 6:38 p.m. CDT. Forecasters predicted 70 percent probability of good weather.