downright disgusting, but if it’s done correctly, you process water that’s purer than what you drink here on Earth," remarked astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper. Stefanyshyn-Piper and other astronauts will be delivering the device to the ISS today....

of a tangled mess than the symmetrical versions earthlings are accustomed to walking into. "The web was more or less three-dimensional and it looked like it was all over the inside of the spider hab," said NASA astronaut Sandra Magnus, the space station’s...

minute phone call to the International Space Station. From 11:20 a.m. to 11:40 a.m. CDT on Monday students and teachers from both schools will communicate with Expedition 17 astronaut Garrett Reisman. NASA’s education downlinks are part of the agency’s...

it’s not a great destination for the average traveler. But, astronauts are going to have to go there, and NASA has set itself a target date of 2020 to get them there. Ron Li, a professor at Ohio State University, is planning to find a way to help astronauts...

an Interplanetary Internet in space seems like something that should already be in place, apparently NASA is just now getting around to it after ten years of development. However, the first "deep space internet" isn’t a way for astronauts to stream videos...

is currently the umbrella name for the development of numerous spacecraft and systems, including the Ares I and Ares V rockets, the Orion crew exploration vehicle, and the Altair lunar lander. Its purpose is to take astronauts to the International Space Station...