Taunting the United States on its birthday, North Korea fired seven missiles into the Sea of Japan early Saturday in a provocative move that some experts said might have been intended to discourage deployment of new missile defenses against the communist state. ...more

July 5, 2009

A news report says North Korea has fired two mid-range missiles off it eastern coast. ...more

July 3, 2009

NASA has set May 31 for the next space shuttle launch and said that Russia's investigation into last month's rocky landing of its own spacecraft shouldn't interfere. ...more

May 20, 2008

The shuttle's 13-day mission to the International Space Station ended with a trouble-free landing at Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday morning. Even as Atlantis arrived safely home, NASA was readying Endeavour and Discovery for launches scheduled for March and April. ...more

February 21, 2008