Kazakhstan to pay $20 million to send its cosmonaut to ISSBack in May singer Sarah Brightman announced that she was postponing plans to go into space. Brightman said she was putting her spaceflight on hold for personal and family reasons.
Russia to make launches from Baikonur until 2024Head of the Russian Space Agency Igor Komarov declared that Russia will be continuing launches from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome until 2024, when it will switch to its own Vostochny Cosmodrome.
Radio silence as Russia tries to contact space cargoRussia will try again to make contact with an unmanned cargo ship after communications were lost following the spacecraft's launch toward the International Space Station.
NASA delays spacewalk to Saturday to analyze spacesuitThe start of a series of spacewalks to carry out major work at the International Space Station will be delayed by a day to Saturday so NASA can investigate a spacesuits problem.
SpaceX launches deep-space weather observatoryA $340 million satellite that aims to alert people to potentially dangerous solar activity and geomagnetic storms blasted off toward deep space atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
NASA hails spending boost under Obama budget proposalNASA hailed a proposal by President Barack Obama to boost spending for the US space agency and announced plans for a mission to explore Jupiter's moon, Europa.
Google aboard as Musk's SpaceX gets $1 bn in fundingThe private space exploration firm SpaceX said it had secured a $1 billion investment that could help founder Elon Musk's plan to build a satellite Internet network.
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SpaceX poised for cargo, rocket-recycle launchSpaceX will try again to launch a load of cargo to the International Space Station and recycle its Falcon 9 rocket by landing a key part on an ocean platform.