Beijing - China is preparing to launch its Shenzhou VII spacecraft on a mission this month to include the first spacewalk by a Chinese astronaut, state media reported Sunday. All the major systems involved in the launching are now in the final prepa...

"The leaked internal email fails to provide the contextual framework for my remarks, and my support for the administration's policies."

The spacecraft will reportedly be launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwestern Gansu province.

AP - A retired NASA engineer looking to develop an inexpensive way for people to travel to space might have to go back to the drawing board after one of his experiments exploded Saturday.

Washington - Uneasy about ongoing tropical storms, the US space agency NASA Sunday announced a two-day delay in launching the Atlantis shuttle mission to repair the Hubble telescope. Atlantis will launch on October 10 instead of October 8 from the Ke...