Topic: Michael Fincke

A little bit of soap nearly cut short an astronaut's spacewalk.. . About five hours into the walk, Andrew Feustel started to complain calmly about...

Happy US-Russian crew deny 'divorce in space'

A Russian and US space crew denied on Friday that new rules forbid them from sharing toilets and food in orbit, hailing their work as the " "We are still working our partnership together, but please don't make a mistake," US astronaut ...

Russian capsule carrying US tourist leaves ISS

A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying US software pioneer Charles Simonyi undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) and took course for Earth, space officials said.The capsule, also carrying US astronaut Michael Fincke and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Lonchakov, was expected to land ...

Space Commander Has Cake, Eats it Too

The space shuttle Discovery may be installing a massive 16-ton solar power plant at the International Space Station today, but its astronaut crew also packed something a little sweeter for the orbiting lab's veteran commander.. Discovery skipper Lee Archambault made sure ...

Space Toilet May Get a Road Test

The newest bathroom aboard the International Space Station will have to wait for a vital road test, even though the space shuttle Discovery's crew has more than tripled the orbiting lab's population.. But delays launching the shuttle forced NASA to ...
NASA engineers are keeping close tabs on a piece of Soviet-era space trash to decide whether to move the International Space Station before the arrival of the shuttle Discovery on Tuesday. If NASA engineers decide they need to move the space station ...
Tucked away with the new hardware set to launch into space aboard NASA's shuttle Discovery on Wednesday night is a desperately-needed spare part for the International Space Station's urine recycler.. Without the urine processor, the space station could likely support ...
A US astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut completed a 5.5-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Tuesday to install a device that monitors conditions around the orbital outpost.. Engineers believe electrical charges triggered glitches that caused Russian space capsules returning ...
A US astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut completed a 5.5-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Tuesday to install a device that monitors conditions around the orbital outpost.. Engineers believe electrical charges triggered glitches that caused Russian space capsules returning ...
Astronauts try to fix urine-to-water machine that will let space station double its crewAstronauts tinkered Sunday with a troublesome piece of equipment designed to help convert urine and sweat into drinkable water, which is vital to allowing the international space station crew ...