Russia’s Mission Control has failed to stabilise a cargo ship spinning out of control in orbit and it is plunging back to Earth.

Nasa astronauts have successfully completed their third spacewalk in just over a week to finish an extensive cable job at the International Space Station.

NASA astronauts have successfully completed their third spacewalk in just over a week to complete an extensive cable job at the International Space Station.

Space shuttle Endeavour’s astronauts have inspected their ship for any launch damage today as they raced toward a 200-mile-high rendezvous with the International Space Station.

NASA delayed the planned landing of the space shuttle Atlantis by at least a day tonight after engineers spotted an object that may have accidentally flown out of its cargo bay.