A daring second attempt to land a reusable rocket on a floating barge by a private space company has failed.

Nasa’s new Orion spacecraft is on its way to orbit.

A series of mishaps has forced mission controllers to scrub today’s planned launch of the Orion spacecraft that could one day take astronauts to Mars.

Limerick Institute of Technology has created Irish space history after an experiment that could deliver a breakthrough to successfully growing crops in extreme conditions on Earth was loaded on the International Space Station.

Nasa’s Maven spacecraft has arrived at Mars after a 442m-mile journey that began nearly a year ago.

A communications satellite has been launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, carried aloft aboard an Atlas 5 rocket.

Nasa’s newest robotic explorer, Maven, is on its way to Mars.

NASA is launching a new Mars explorer later, which, it is hoped, will work out how the red planet changed.

NASA’s newest robotic explorer rocketed into space in an unprecedented moonshot from Virginia.

Irish firms are at the cutting edge of European Space Agency programmes creating technologies capable of performing in the extreme environment of space.

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After three decades of space service, Discovery, NASA’s oldest and most travelled shuttle began its new life as a museum relic today with one final takeoff.

Nasa has launched the world’s biggest extraterrestrial explorer on a mission to Mars.

Nasa has launched a solar-powered spacecraft on a five-year mission to Jupiter.

Space shuttle Atlantis is back on Earth, and the shuttle era is over.

Space shuttle Atlantis is zooming back to Earth for the last landing of the 30-year programme.

Atlantis has blasted off on Nasa’s last space shuttle launch this afternoon.

Nasa has continued fuelling space shuttle Atlantis for its final lift-off today even though stormy weather threatened to delay the launch.

THE public will be able to watch a piece of history unfold today when the CIT Blackrock Castle Observatory screens live the last take-off of the space shuttle.

The last space shuttle launch this week may have to deal with bad weather.

In a remarkable 36 hours of his presidency, Barack Obama carried a momentous secret but gave no hint of it as he consoled tornado victims, delivered a college commencement address and cracked jokes at a black-tie dinner.

NASA abruptly called off space shuttle Endeavour’s final launch yesterday because of a puzzling heater failure in a critical power unit, disappointing huge crowds converging on the area for the afternoon liftoff.

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Discovery, the world’s most travelled spaceship, thundered into orbit for the final time, heading towards the International Space Station on a journey that marks the beginning of the end of the shuttle era.

A PRIVATE company launched a spacecraft into orbit and then, in a historic first, guided it back to Earth yesterday in a bold test for NASA that could lead to the first commercial space station supply run next year and eventual astronaut rides.

The first commercial spacecraft designed to return to Earth was successfully launched today from Cape Canaveral.

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley has been confirmed as Megan Fox's replacement in 'Transformers 3'.

SPACE shuttle Atlantis has lifted off on its final voyage, carrying an experienced crew of six and a full shipment of space station gear.

Rain and overcast skies prevented space shuttle Discovery from returning to Earth today, and Mission Control instructed the astronauts to spend a 15th day circling the world to await better weather.

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 is investigating how a bag of cocaine got into the hangar that houses space shuttle Discovery at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.

Space shuttle Discovery and seven astronauts blazed into orbit on a spectacular midnight flight to the international space station, transporting a treadmill named after a TV comedian, mice and thousands of pounds of more solemn supplies.

Thunderstorms forced Nasa to call off space shuttle Discovery’s launch today.

Walter Cronkite, the premier TV anchorman of the US networks’ golden age who reported a tumultuous time with reassuring authority and came to be called “the most trusted man in America”, has died at the age of 92.

After more than a month’s delay, space shuttle Endeavour and seven astronauts thundered into orbit on a flight to the international space station, hauling up a veranda for Japan’s enormous lab and looking to set a crowd record.

Space shuttle Endeavour and seven astronauts were on their way to the international space station after more than a month’s delay.

Space shuttle Atlantis took off today on its way to the Hubble space telescope.

Nasa’s astronauts are preparing for a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope – with a standby shuttle being readied for what could be a hazardous trip.

The 10 astronauts aboard the linked space shuttle and space station wrapped up their joint work and got ready to say goodbye.

I WAS sitting in the living room eating, as best I recall, a grilled cheese sandwich, and watching a space adventure on ‘the set’ when my mother came into the room.

AN unmanned NASA rocket scientists hope will shed light on the early solar system by exploring an asteroid and a dwarf planet lifted off successfully yesterday.

An unmanned NASA rocket scientists hope will shed light on the early solar system by exploring an asteroid and a dwarf planet lifted off successfully today.

Space shuttle Endeavour touched down in Florida today as it returned former teacher Barbara Morgan and six other crew to Earth following their mission to the international space station.

SPACE shuttle Endeavour undocked from the international space station a day early yesterday, as NASA kept a wary eye on Hurricane Dean.