

Despite massive budget shortfalls and a looming retirement date, the US space agency (Nasa) will not abandon its shuttle programme and will keep its promise to finish building the International Space Station.


Congressional pressure to avoid a gap in U.S. human space access is behind a NASA push to accelerate the first piloted flight of the planned Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV).


NASA formally announced the next crew bound for the International Space Station (ISS) Thursday, a two-astronaut team set to launch in mid-March aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
