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NASA has established an online site asking people to review photos of Mars, and a veteran Russian cosmonaut says his country is behind in space exploration.  Full story »

Atlantis crews work ahead of schedule today to move an equipment carrier from the space shuttle payload bay to the International Space Station.  Full story »

Registration ends Monday for a reception and dinner at the Davidson Center for Space Exploration honoring Dr. William McCorkle, outgoing executive director of the Army's Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center at Redstone Arsenal. Full story »

Tools used to improve the Hubble Space Telescope's defective mirror are now on display at the Smithsonian Air & Space museum in Washington DC, and Russian cosmonauts write funny blogs.  Full story »

Russia is developing advanced nuclear powered rocket engines to go to far away places and NASA is open to talking with China about space exploration, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said.  Full story »

Rep. Parker Griffith, D-Huntsville, lauds Time magazine's choice of Ares I as best invention of 2009 on the floor of the House of Representatives today.  Full story »

Atlantis crew readies shuttle for International Space Station docking on Wednesday. Also, video of Atlantis launch is online. Full story »

Huntsville has family speeding through space around the globe today. Dr. Robert L. Satcher Jr., a cousin to local resident Kathleen Satcher Wright, is part of the six-member Atlantis crew on its way to the International Space Station. Full story »

Space shuttle Atlantis lifted off from Launch Pad 39A on an 11-day mission to the International Space Station. The six-member shuttle crew will deliver almost 30,000 pounds of supplies to the floating lab.  Full story »

Launch teams continue to monitor space shuttle Atlantis and its six-member crew as NASA awaits the 1:38 p.m. Central time launch window to put the shuttle on its way to the International Space Station.  Full story »

Space shuttle Atlantis mission gets special volunteer NASA twitter team to spread launch updates across the popular microblogging website.  Full story »

NASA is set to loft space shuttle Atlantis to the International Space Station, today, with almost 30,000 pounds of parts and supplies. The shuttle program has just five scheduled missions after the Atlantis flight.  Full story »

Ground crews have completed most of the work prepping space shuttle Atlantis for a midday launch Monday. Mission managers at Kennedy Space Center plan to meet at 3:30 a.m. Central Time to give final approval to load the Marshall Space Flight Center-managed external fuel tank.  Full story »

NASA ground crews are in the process of retracting the launch pad servicing arm from the space shuttle Atlantis as the launch clock winds down to a Monday blast off. Full story »

NASA scientists at Ames Research Center, near San Francisco, said the intentional crash Oct. 9 of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite into the lunar surface brought up a plume of water.  Full story »