[Tuesday, August 1, 2006] On 24 and 31 July 2006 training sessions for Daisuke Enomoto and his backup Anoushek Ansari were conducted at RSC Energia.

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[Tuesday, August 1, 2006] A new, highly detailed image of the outside of Bigelow Aerospace's Genesis 1 spacecraft has been released.

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[Wednesday, August 2, 2006] NASA's new International Space Station science Web site, created and managed by the Marshall Center's Office of Strategic Analysis and Communications, Public and Employee Communications Office, is now live.

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[Thursday, August 3, 2006] After tasting several of Lagasse's creations, the three-person crew will talk to the chef at 1:30 p.m. EDT Aug. 10 in a special hookup carried live on NASA TV.

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[Thursday, August 3, 2006] NASA /Johnson Space Center may issue a Request for Proposal for the design, development, certification, production, and sustaining engineering of a space suit system to meet the needs of the Constellation Program.

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[Thursday, August 3, 2006] The FC Barcelona team will be in Houston to play an Aug. 9 exhibition game against Club America, one of Mexico's top club teams.

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[Thursday, August 3, 2006] The Space Shuttle Atlantis arrived at its launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., at 8:54 a.m. EDT Wednesday on top of a giant vehicle known as the crawler transporter.

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[Thursday, August 3, 2006] On a quiet wing of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, healthy people spend weeks at a time just lying around.

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[Thursday, August 3, 2006] Jeff Williams and Thomas Reiter worked quickly through scheduled spacewalk tasks Thursday, then completed three get-ahead jobs, or extra tasks, and were ready for more. Mission Control assigned two more jobs, which the astronauts also completed.

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[Friday, August 4, 2006] Early on Wednesday, Atlantis rolled from high bay 3 in the VAB to Launch Pad 39B. Early Thursday, the orbiter's auxiliary power units were successfully test fired and the rotating service structure was moved to the mate position.

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[Saturday, August 5, 2006] Around 150 children attending ESA's Space Camp 2006, in Patras, Greece, used amateur radio to talk to ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter on the International Space Station (ISS) last Saturday.

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[Monday, August 7, 2006] With the remaining shuttle missions, NASA will embark on a series of flights as difficult as any in history to complete the International Space Station.

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[Monday, August 7, 2006] ESA astronaut and International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 13 crew member Thomas Reiter set a new record for the number of days spent in space by a European astronaut last week when he completed a total of over 209 days in orbit.

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[Wednesday, August 9, 2006] In 2007 a SNL experimental package of promising polymers will be part of a NASA experiment on the upcoming Materials International Space Station Experiment (MISSE-6) to be launched into low Earth orbit.

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[Thursday, August 10, 2006] NASA officials will host a news conference no earlier than 2 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, Aug. 16, following a two-day detailed assessment of the readiness of Space Shuttle Atlantis for launch. The briefing will air live on NASA TV.

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[Friday, August 11, 2006] This week, Sen. Hutchison, Chairman of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Science and Space, in a letter to NASA Administrator Griffin, expressed concern that NASA may be considering suspension of International Space Station research for up to a year.

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[Friday, August 11, 2006] At Launch Pad 39B, functional tests and checkout of the shuttle and pad systems are under way. Installation of the elbow camera of the orbiter's remote manipulator system (robotic arm) is complete.

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[Friday, August 11, 2006] This week on the International Space Station crew members refurbished their exercise treadmill, prepared areas inside and out for an imminent expansion of their home and took a couple of special calls to discuss soccer and food in space.

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[Monday, August 14, 2006] NASA Exploration Systems' managers will host a press conference at 4 p.m. EDT Friday, Aug. 18, to announce the organizations selected to develop and demonstrate commercial orbital transportation services.

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[Thursday, August 17, 2006] NASA senior managers on Wednesday unanimously voted to launch the Space Shuttle Atlantis on Aug. 27. Commander Brent Jett and his five crewmates are scheduled to lift off at 4:30 p.m. EDT on the STS-115 mission.

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[Friday, August 18, 2006] NASA selected SpaceX and Rocketplane-Kistler to develop and demonstrate commercial orbital transportation services that could open new markets and pave the way for contracts to launch and deliver crew and cargo to the ISS.

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[Friday, August 18, 2006] The astronauts aboard the International Space Station spent much of their week preparing for the arrival of the Space Shuttle Atlantis, set for launch Aug. 27 on the STS-115 mission.

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[Sunday, August 20, 2006] Following a decision by Space Shuttle Program managers to remove and replace two Ku-band antenna actuator bolts in the forward section of the orbiter payload bay, workers are preparing access platforms and will complete the task over the weekend.

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[Monday, August 21, 2006] NASA recently held a Constellation Space Suit Systems (CSSS) Industry Day to discuss he design, development, certification, production, and sustaining engineering of a space suit system to meet the needs of the Constellation Program.

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[Monday, August 21, 2006] NASA will begin the launch countdown for Space Shuttle Atlantis' STS-115 mission at 6 p.m. EDT Thursday, Aug. 24, at the T-43 hour point.

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[Monday, August 21, 2006] News conferences, events and operating hours for the NASA Kennedy Space Center News Center are set for the Aug. 27 launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis on the STS-115 mission to the International Space Station.

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[Tuesday, August 22, 2006] Orion is the vehicle NASA's Constellation Program is developing to carry a new generation of explorers back to the moon and later to Mars. Orion will succeed the space shuttle as NASA's primary vehicle for human space exploration.

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[Wednesday, August 23, 2006] When space shuttle Atlantis rockets into space later this week, it will take along three kinds of microbes so scientists can study how their genetic responses and their ability to cause disease change.

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[Thursday, August 24, 2006] It doesn't just matter how much radiation an astronaut is exposed to, time and the order in which charged particles strike human cells are important factors as well. That's the main finding of a study simulating radiation exposure.

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[Thursday, August 24, 2006] NASA began the countdown for the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-115 at noon EDT Thursday, Aug. 24, at the T-43 hour point.

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[Thursday, August 24, 2006] NASA Exploration Systems' managers will host a press conference at 4 p.m. EDT Thursday, Aug. 31, to announce the prime contractor to design, develop, and build Orion, America's next human spacecraft.

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[Thursday, August 24, 2006] For the first time, NASA is making space shuttle launch footage available to anyone who has a portable media player with video capability. A video podcast, or "vodcast," of the liftoff of Atlantis for the STS-115 mission will be available to subscribers.

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[Friday, August 25, 2006] Space Adventures, Ltd., announced today that Ansari X Prize title sponsor, Anousheh Ansari, has been officially named to the Soyuz TMA-9 primary crew.

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[Friday, August 25, 2006] At Launch Pad 39B, final launch preparations continue. The payload bay doors were closed for flight last night, and loading of the fuel for the power reactant storage and distribution system is now under way.

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[Friday, August 25, 2006] With the countdown clock ticking toward the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis on the STS-115 mission, the International Space Station crew continues to prepare for visitors.

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[Saturday, August 26, 2006] "Extension of the Venture Capitalist Consulting contract through March 31, 2007 will allow for continued assistance to NASA in assessing the business and management performance of selected COTS partners and their financial progress and viability"

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[Saturday, August 26, 2006] The Space Shuttle Mission Management Team decided Saturday afternoon to postpone the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis for at least 24 hours to allow more time for teams to assess ground and flight systems following a strong lighting strike.

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[Sunday, August 27, 2006] Editor's 28 Aug 7:10 am EDT update: The KSC launch site news room staff suddenly dashed out a few moments ago. Those who remain are talking about "rollback".

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[Monday, August 28, 2006] Launching Space Shuttles has always been complicated - thousands of people and millions of parts all have to work just right. All it takes is one small thing - and a bit of bad luck - and a launch can be delayed again - and again.

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[Tuesday, August 29, 2006] NASA has decided to roll the Space Shuttle Atlantis off its launch pad and back inside the protection of the Vehicle Assembly Building. The roll back of Atlantis is targeted to start at approximately 10:05 a.m. EDT Tuesday.

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[Tuesday, August 29, 2006] NASA Mission Managers have decided to return Atlantis to Launch Pad 39B today. The space shuttle is expected to be back in place by about 8 p.m. EDT. The decision came as Tropical Storm Ernesto was predicted to skirt further west than first expected.

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[Thursday, August 31, 2006] Following a detailed inspection of Atlantis, the six-member crew has a new launch date to begin the STS-115 mission to the International Space Station. The lift-off from Kennedy is set for 12:29 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 6.

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[Thursday, August 31, 2006] NASA selected Wednesday Lockheed Martin Corp., based in Bethesda, Md., as the prime contractor to design, develop, and build Orion, America's spacecraft for a new generation of explorers.

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