Astronaut Randolph Bresnik jubilantly welcomed his new daughter into the world today as he floated 220 miles above it. ...more

November 22, 2009

A spacewalking astronaut put aside the impending birth of his daughter and blazed through his first-ever venture outside the International Space Station today. ...more

November 21, 2009

A pair of spacewalking astronauts, one of them a surgeon, hustled through antenna and cable work outside the International Space Station today and even whipped off an extra chore. ...more

November 19, 2009

CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) - Space shuttle Atlantis rocketed into orbit Monday with six astronauts and a full load of spare parts for the International Space Station. ...more

November 17, 2009

Members of the Passonno family of Clearwater have enjoyed talking to Nicole Passonno Stott from space and getting the pictures, but now they say it is time for her to come home. ...more

November 16, 2009

NASA has cleared space shuttle Atlantis for liftoff Monday on a trip to stock the International Space Station with several years' worth of spare parts. Mission managers gave the go-ahead Saturday as forecasters put the odds of good launch weather at 90 percent. ...more

November 15, 2009

NASA's newest rocket has blasted off on a test flight that may pave the way for a return to the moon. ...more

October 28, 2009

The space shuttle has landed at Kennedy Space Center after all. ...more

September 21, 2009

NASA's chief astronaut will shut off the lights on America's space shuttle program. And Clearwater astronaut Nicole Stott will be aboard the last flight. ...more

September 19, 2009

As Clearwater High School graduate Nicole Passonno Stott took a spacewalk Tuesday, her friends and family watched intently from Capogna's Dugout Italian Restaurant and Sports Bar. Television sets normally tuned to the Rays or Bucs in the Clearwater establishment were fixed on the NASA channel as Stott removed an ammonia tank from the International Space Station. The flight engineer is one of seven astronauts who blasted off Friday aboard space shuttle Discovery. They hooked up Sunday with the space station, where Stott will spend the next three months. ...more

September 2, 2009