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After 185 days in space, Bay Area astronaut Kate Rubins will hurtle back to Earth on a Russian spacecraft Friday having traveled more than 78 million miles and circled the globe nearly 3,000 times since she launched into space last year. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Sitting atop a million-pound rocket filled with the 91,000 gallons of fuel needed to reach the International Space Station later this year, Petaluma native Nicole Aunapu Mann will be relying on the thousands of hours she spent in a flight simulator, preparing for every conceivable error. Her next destination could be the moon. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In 1984, UCSF research professor Millie Hughes-Fulford took a leave from that position and left her Mill Valley home for Houston so she could become an astronaut and work on the Spacelab, a laboratory in Space Shuttle Columbia. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Challenger space shuttle disaster is one of a handful of moments in U.S. history when you remember exactly where you were when you heard the news, on the short list with the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the first moon walk and, of course, 9/11. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

1If a vaccine was ready, how many would take it? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The first U.S. spacecraft capable of carrying astronauts since the retirement of the space shuttles launched early Saturday. A successful mission could put NASA and the United States on the cusp of a renewed era of human spaceflight. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Los Angeles may be the City of Stars, but it's almost impossible to see real ones overhead. To most people here, stargazing means a stroll along Hollywood Boulevard. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

PHOENIX (AP) - Paul Weitz, a retired NASA astronaut who commanded the first flight of the space shuttle Challenger and also piloted the Skylab in the early 1970s, has died. He was 85. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, was advised by consulting firm Hawthorne, Krauss & Associates LLC to eliminate its fleet of Space Shuttle aircraft after the completion of the assembly of its International Space Station. NASA was also advised to depend on an X-33-testbed-based, human-rated reusable launch vehicle, or RLV, for its requirements on its space-launching initiatives if possible. The recommendations issued by the NASA consultant are beneficial to the commercial VentureStar RLV planned by Lockheed Martin. The recommendations, however, are detrimental for the installation of liquid flyback boosters into four Space Shuttle units planned by Boeing.

Work stopped, mouths gaped and cameras clicked as thousands of Bay Area residents whooped, hollered and gawked Friday morning when the space shuttle Endeavour took a last leisurely whirl over the region. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The space shuttle Endeavour's final flight over the Bay Area on Friday morning has been delayed by an hour by NASA officials hoping to avoid early-morning fog in San Francisco. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The space shuttle Endeavour, historic veteran of 122 million miles in orbital flight, will fly low through Bay Area skies Friday morning on its way to retirement in a Los Angeles museum. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Space exploration was the ultimate boys' club until Sally Ride was launched through that glass ceiling on board the space shuttle Challenger in 1983. She was not only the first American woman in space, she was also the youngest astronaut at age 32. And she approached her mission and the accompanying hoopla with a courage and dignity that made her historic feat seem effortless, natural ... overdue. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Astronaut Sally Ride, who died this week at 61 of pancreatic cancer, inspired millions around the world, not only as the first American woman in space, but also as an advocate for women in the sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Jose Hernandez, a first-time candidate running for Congress in a Central Valley district, spent two weeks aboard the space shuttle Discovery in 2009. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Weather permitting, the final space shuttle will erupt from its Florida launchpad today, soar past up to a million spectators, and head into orbit and the history books. America's vaunted space program will be through for now. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Nothing like a space toilet to get middle school kids excited about science. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Sixteen mice from San Francisco are scheduled to fly on the space shuttle Discovery on Monday to spend 13 days aboard the international space station in an experiment to study the effects of life in zero gravity on their immune systems. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Alone once again in the sky, the space telescope Hubble is flying today 350 miles above the Earth preparing to send home fresh images of the stars and galaxies studding the fabric of our early universe. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]