Amateur radio operators have a saying: When all else fails, there’s ham radio. And that’s true, at least to an extent — knock out the power, tear down the phone lines, and burn up all the satellites ...

It was their first spacewalk. Working 220 miles above the Earth as their weightless tools bobbed about them, two cosmonauts on Thursday struggled outside the international space station to disconnect ...

But as with any such fast fixes for complex applications, there is always some anxiety that the fix itself may introduce new failure modes. From here on out, the Soyuz craft will have better ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In a daring spacewalk, two space station astronauts cut into the insulation of their descent capsule yesterday and removed an explosive bolt that could have blown off their ...

(Updates with end of spacewalk) By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., July 10 (Reuters) - Two spacewalking cosmonauts delicately removed an explosive bolt from their Soyuz capsule on Thursday in hopes ...