KENNEDY SPACE CENTER - Space Shuttle and International Space Station managers decided today to extend the STS-133 mission by an additional day, providing more time to unpack and outfit the Permanent Multipurpose Module and fill the H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV-2) with trash before its planned late-March undocking.

Light from NASA's Hubble telescope latest discovery began the long trip towards Earth 13.2 billion years ago.

The first moon walker, Neil Armstrong, who spends most of his days near sea level, turns 80 on Thursday.

When I was growing up during the days of the Mercury and Apollo space programs, the astronauts were real heroes. They still are heroes, by the way. I was a young men when the world waited for the men to walk on the moon in 1969. I hiked about 25 miles that day through the Sangre de Cristo mountains to be near a television so I could watch Neil Armstrong on a battered black and white television with a couple of hundred other people.

Amid twin columns of fire, Space Shuttle Discovery lifted off Thursday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a picturesque, warm, late February afternoon.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. - This year's Perseid meteor shower peaks Thursday and Friday, and it promises to be one of the best displays of the year, according to NASA.

Nicholas Negroponte's idea of providing an inexpensive laptop for every child didn't set the world on fire.

Space shuttle Endeavour slipped the bonds of gravity, disappeared into Florida's blue sky and began orbiting the planet Wednesday after a 6:38 p.m. blast off from Kennedy Space Center.