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NASA is blaming Congress for the need to pay $424 million more to Russia to get U.S. astronauts into space.

ISS is only able to communicate with ground control every 90 mins. as the station passes over ground stations in Russia. This is not an unprecedented event, but any loss of communications not good. American, 2 Russians on the station.

Could a “Deathstar” someday defend Earth against incoming threats from space? Last Friday, asteroid 2012 DA14 -- half a football field long and weighing about 190,000 tons -- missed plane Earth in a fly-by. Far smaller and therefore harder to detect was the 50 foot long asteroid that injured more than 1,000 Russians when it stuck a few hours earlier.

Russian scientists were racing against the clock Wednesday to find a way to fire the engines of an unmanned probe destined to collect soil samples from a moon of Mars, after equipment failure shortly after launch left it stuck in Earth orbit....

Pieces of the unmanned supply ship, bound for the International Space Station, fell in Siberia amid an explosion, officials said.

When the United States embarked on its shuttle program decades ago, it set out to build a workhorse vehicle that would make space travel routine and beat the Soviets during the Cold War struggle for dominance in space.

Russia's space chief said Wednesday his agency will consider sending a spacecraft to a large asteroid to knock it off its path and prevent a possible collision with Earth.