Despite talk of missions to Mars and a renewed interest in returning to the moon, nothing can match the awesome feat of that first lunar landing 50 years ago today, writes Dan Buckley.

Space is about to get a whole lot more accessible — and potentially profitable. Jeremy Keehn on the new space age.

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Astronauts gave the International Space Station's big robot arm a new hand in what was the first of three Nasa spacewalks planned over the next two weeks.

A Soyuz space capsule carrying astronauts from Russia, Japan and the United States has docked with the International Space Station after a two-day voyage.

All the important questions were covered in a recent press conference interviewing an all-female squad taking part in a simulation experiment.

It’s been a big year for NASA what with finding water on Mars, new images of Pluto and the announcement of a manned mission to Mars.

Astronauts hurriedly evacuated the US section of the International Space Station and moved to its Russian module after a coolant problem emerged, but Russian and US officials insist all six crew were not in any danger.