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Space Shuttle Endeavor landed at 9:48 CST at Kennedy Space Center. The mission, STS-127, included five space walks and a trip to the International Space Station to swap crew members. Astronaut Timothy Kopra joined the ISS crew as a flight engineer and science officer. Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata returned to Earth aboard Endeavor.

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Good morning, Houston. The bad news: You've missed your chance to see the International Space Station this morning as it orbits above Texas. (We suppose it's only bad news if you're interested in seeing the space station — if you're not, hey, you won't be disappointed!) The good news: You'll have three more opportunities before the end of the week. The ISS will be visible at 4:08 a.m. Thursday (for nearly four minutes, beginning...

You've probably never thought that building training equipment for astronauts is so easy that high school students could do it. Turns out, though, that it is. Several Houston high school students were given the opportunity by NASA to help build equipment that will be used to train International Space Station crews. The program, High School Students United with NASA to Create Hardware (HUNCH), was created by a Johnson Space Center engineer who wanted to create...

Local tech news in a compact, digital format. "Houston, we have a problem" It was 37 years ago yesterday, April 14th, that those tragic words transmitted to Mission Control in Houston as Apollo 13 suffered an oxygen tank explosion that damaged critical on board systems and forced the moon mission to be aborted. The crew underwent an intense repair job to save their lives. UK website Apollo Explorer has info on the event as...

So let's be honest: All weekend, you were sitting around thinking, "Sure, I'd like to know who the father of Anna Nicole's daughter is, but what I really wonder is: What's going on with Lisa Nowak?" Fortunately, the media provided a heathy dose of astronaut-related updates over the weekend. Here's what you might have missed: On Thursday, some friends had dropped by Nowak's Clear Lake home for a visit, according to an AP report carried...

If you're the kind of person who walks around looking at the sky — no, we don't want to know why you do that — you just might see something this week: the International Space Station will be visible from Houston in the coming days. The ISS is passing 220 miles over Houston and will be visible with the naked eye just after dusk or just before dawn, when the sun is below the horizon...