KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL -- NASA released decades-old restored film footage of never-before seen shots of Gemini, Mercury and Apollo missions. 

CAPE CANAVERAL, FL (AP) -- The crew members of space shuttle Discovery are arriving in Cape Canaveral today. 

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has been thinking a lot about the cosmic question, "Are we alone?" The answer is probably not, he says. 

MIAMI (AP) -- NASA says more than 8,000 contractor jobs in the nation's manned space program could be eliminated after the space shuttle program is shut down in 2010. 

CAPE CANAVERAL, FL (AP) -- NASA's next space shuttle launch has been delayed until May 31, nearly a week late because of extra time needed to get the fuel tank to Florida. 

CAPE CANAVERAL, FL (AP) -- NASA rejoiced at a successful nighttime landing that capped an exceptionally long - and successful - mission to the international space station. 

CAPE CANAVERAL, FL (AP) -- The space shuttle Endeavour and its crew of seven returned to Earth on Wednesday, making a rare nighttime touchdown to wrap up "a two-week adventure" at the international space station. 

HOUSTON (AP) -- After a week and a half of complex orbital construction work, Endeavour's seven astronauts undocked from the international space station and began their journey home. 

CAPE CANAVERAL, FL (AP) -- The space shuttle and space station crews said goodbye amid a flurry of hugs and flashing cameras Monday, then sealed the hatches between them in preparation for Endeavour's evening departure. 

HOUSTON (AP) -- Astronauts aboard the linked shuttle-station complex relaxed Sunday after an intense week and a half of work that included five spacewalks and the installation of a giant robot and a Japanese storage compartment. 

CAPE CANAVERAL, FL (AP) -- Endeavour's astronauts embarked on the fifth and final spacewalk of their mission Saturday. 

HOUSTON (AP) -- There's one final spacewalk tonight at the international space station to attach a piece of equipment the shuttle astronauts are leaving behind. 

HOUSTON (AP) -- Like handymen caulking a bathtub, two spacewalking astronauts squirted pink putty into deliberately damaged tile samples to test a new technique for repairing the space shuttle's fragile heat shield.  

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL (AP) -- Two spacewalking astronauts pulled out a caulk gun and high-tech kind of Silly Putty on Thursday night and tested a method for patching shuttle thermal tiles. 

STAR CITY, Russia (AP) -- A second-generation cosmonaut ready to fly, marking the first time the offspring on an astronaut or cosmonaut has had the opportunity.