Space travel Articles on Engadget

December 4, 2012 at 10:16AM

Voyager 1 reaches 'magnetic highway,' gets a taste of interstellar space

October 12, 2012 at 1:06AM

NASA and IHMC building X1 exoskeleton to give us a lift, keep us fit in space and on Earth

October 7, 2012 at 6:32AM

US and Russian space agencies to launch first year-long mission on the ISS

October 6, 2012 at 2:41PM

Space Shuttle Atlantis hands-on: a look inside (video)

October 3, 2012 at 7:08PM

NASA's Curiosity rover checks in on Foursquare, gives Mars its first mayor

September 21, 2012 at 8:15AM

SpaceX to start International Space Station cargo runs on October 7th, kick off routine private spaceflight

September 7, 2012 at 3:44PM

Curiosity rover starts light robotic arm workout in preparation for scientific main event

August 30, 2012 at 12:46PM

Mars Curiosity leaves its landing area, heads to distant frontier a quarter-mile away

August 28, 2012 at 6:55PM

Liftport turns to Kickstarter for space elevator experiment (video)

August 28, 2012 at 10:38AM

Voice signals sent to Mars and back, while telephoto images tease rich geology

August 25, 2012 at 3:45PM

Pioneering astronaut Neil Armstrong dies at 82

July 31, 2012 at 7:57PM

China's new liquid oxygen and kerosene-fueled rocket engine lights up for testing

July 23, 2012 at 6:01PM

Sally Ride, first American woman in space, dies at 61 (updated)

July 15, 2012 at 4:10PM

Richard Branson confirms Virgin Galactic's first space tourism flight will launch next year with him on board

July 10, 2012 at 1:48AM

Researchers find space travel prolongs the life of worms

June 28, 2012 at 6:00PM

Infrared telescope can pick out the atmosphere on distant planets, smell what the aliens are smelling

June 24, 2012 at 2:49PM

Chinese astronauts go hands-on, manually dock with orbiting module

June 23, 2012 at 6:15AM

Excalibur Almaz wants to offer the first private trip to the Moon -- provided you've got £100 million

June 18, 2012 at 12:42PM

China conducts its first crewed spaceship docking, gives east Asia its place in space (updated)

May 26, 2012 at 2:31PM

SpaceX Dragon team opens the hatch, to spend Memorial Day with more cargo hauling than barbecues

April 30, 2012 at 9:32AM

Commercial space shuttle prototypes fly through wind tunnel testing

April 27, 2012 at 11:56PM

Space travel coming to an airport near you? Maybe, if Skylon keeps its cool

April 27, 2012 at 8:43AM

PSA: Space Shuttle Enterprise flying over NYC this morning

April 19, 2012 at 5:54PM

Boeing CST-100 capsule could shuttle astronauts to ISS, shows off its innards in Colorado Springs

February 8, 2012 at 7:18PM

Record-breaking freefall advances space suit technology (video)

February 2, 2012 at 6:13PM

SpaceX test-fires its 'super' rocket engines (video)

January 3, 2012 at 1:15PM

Hackers planning homespun anti-censorship satellite internet

November 11, 2011 at 5:09PM

J-2X rocket passes second test, proves NASA can still have a blast (video)

September 30, 2011 at 10:55AM

Future SpaceX rockets will set you down gently after your long commute (video)

August 11, 2011 at 5:14PM

Virgin Galactic, XCOR land suborbital contracts with NASA

August 7, 2011 at 12:56PM

Boeing's CST-100 to shoot non-NASA astronauts into space by 2015

April 28, 2011 at 9:05AM

NASA collects proposals for space fueling stations

April 25, 2011 at 1:08PM

Elon Musk says SpaceX will send a man to space in three years, Mars within the next two decades

March 9, 2011 at 1:46PM

Space Shuttle Discovery returns from final trip, immediately begins search for final resting place

March 2, 2011 at 6:32PM

Simulated Mars mission simulating return to Earth as we speak, astronauts genuinely overjoyed

July 22, 2010 at 8:40PM

Visualized: Boeing's CST-100 gets you and six friends to space... for cheap!

July 19, 2010 at 5:52AM

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo completes first flight with crew on board

July 14, 2010 at 5:31AM

IKAROS gets first burst of solar propulsion, wants more

March 23, 2010 at 1:43PM

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo completes maiden flight (now with video!)

December 10, 2009 at 5:15PM

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo: the video unveiling

December 7, 2009 at 1:57PM

Virgin Galactic reveals SpaceShipTwo, plans commercial space flights in 2011

October 20, 2009 at 10:31AM

Ion propulsion engine could take you to Mars in 39 days

August 5, 2009 at 1:51AM

Orbiting fuel stations proposed for trips to the Moon, Mars, and beyond

July 28, 2009 at 8:06PM

Aabar Investments takes 32 percent stake in Virgin Galactic, we're still not cool enough to go to space

April 30, 2009 at 8:19AM

Next Russian space capsule could land on a gentle cushion of fire

February 2, 2009 at 9:37AM

Virgin offers up 25 million 'Velocity Points' to put you in space

November 4, 2008 at 7:14PM

Spaceship "force field" could protect astronauts on trip to Mars

July 26, 2008 at 1:23PM

WhiteKnightTwo to be unveiled on Monday, space to seem less far away

March 26, 2008 at 11:25AM

XCOR's Lynx aims to enter space tourism business in 2010

January 23, 2008 at 4:20PM

SpaceShipTwo, White Knight Two designs unveiled: aren't they cute?

November 4, 2007 at 12:15PM

Astronauts repair torn solar panel in seven hour spacewalk

October 8, 2007 at 11:06AM

Goodbye dollar, hello QUID: intergalactic currency proposed

March 2, 2007 at 11:10PM

NASA develops inflatable lunar habitat