CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Feb. 18 (UPI) -- NASA issued requirements Tuesday for a new spaceship that will be safer than the shuttle and Russia's Soyuz capsules, big enough to hold at least four astronauts, and available to serve as an emergency escape vessel for International Space Station crews b

The Israeli post office issued a new stamp in December showcasing the country''s first astronaut, Ilan Ramon, who is scheduled to fly on space shuttle Columbia on Thursday.

BETHESDA, Md., Sept. 20 (UPI) -- After more than a decade of delays, on Friday the U.S. government released thousands of photographs and mapping imagery obtained by two high-flying robotic sentries of the Cold War: Keyhole reconnaissance satellites.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. Central Command head Gen. Tommy Franks briefed President Bush this week about a scaled-down contingency plan to strike Iraq that calls for an invasion force of some 80,000 to 100,000 personnel including only 50,000 ground troops, administration offic

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., April 1 (UPI) -- Seven astronauts preparing for launch this week aboard shuttle Atlantis flew into the Kennedy Space Center on Monday, but that was a secret -- at least for a wh

WASHINGTON, March 18 (UPI) -- The Department of Commerce and Patent and Trademark Office on Monday displayed nine homeland defense inventions that have been awarded patents within the past two years and can help protect Americans from terrorist attacks.

COCOA BEACH, Fla., Jan. 8 (UPI) -- The military is preparing to ease stringent, post-Sept. 11 security measures and reopen a prime 6-mile stretch of oceanfront highway to commuter traffic.

, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- SLEEP PROBLEMS MAY TROUBLE ASTRONAUTS