The robot Kirobo held a press conference at the International Space Station yesterday to complain about his attire. (Read about him and see him here). "Like Rodney Dangerfield," he whined, "I get no respect." Kirobo is disgusted that his handler...
In theory it sounded great. Build a talking robot (name = Kirobo) to keep a Japanese astronaut company on the International Space Station. Read about it here on BBC News . But onlookers aren't sure things will work out as planned. The problem? K...
Space - A dangerous water leak in an International Space Station astronaut's helmet turned out to be a faulty diaper 'payload' according to a NASA statement tonight. So severe was the flooding that a planned 45-minute debut spacewalk outside the S...
Space - "Luckily the salon had just completed its last anal bleaching job," ISS spokesperson Maj Dmitry Dumpkoff commented, "before a rupture sent millions of gallons of hydrogen peroxide into outer space." The mishap occurred shortly after this m...
Pasadena, Ca - "Just a couple of big breaths should get these babes going," the head of NASA's Jet Convulsion Laboratory said today, "so long as you don't have an allergy to rubber or speak with a lithp - er...lisp!" News of the delivery was welco...
As soon as spoof science reporter Gail Farrelly read the article, "International Space Station Will Get First Inflatable Addition" in Florida Today, she launched an investigation into this very unusual contract deal. She'd like to find out how the a...
London - "Must be the spooky facial similarity between ISS Flight Engineer Colonel Yuri Malenchenko and Line Of Duty's DS Steve Arnott," a NASA source said today as news of the broadcast link-up was announced, "it's made the the whole Station crew cr...
The space junk that nearly hit the International Space Station (ISS) was erroneously reported to have been a discarded fragment from a Russian rocket booster. Upon further investigation it has been discovered that the space junk was actually the Kar...
Strasbourg - He's been snapped at a late night Barking kebab takeaway, the Tories' Winter Ball and last year's Wimbledon Ladies' Championship finals. Today judges at the European Court of Human Frights refused to release 'pirated' ISS footage of t...
Antarctica - "This is the last time we frack for bloody Gazprom!" was the gist of an emergency frequency communiqué picked up by astronauts aboard the ISS this morning. It has broken a seven day radio blackout of Russia's Arctic and Antarctic Res...
After seventy years in the planning, the British Space Industry is finally ready to launch it's first astro-noughts this summer. "It's a little known fact," said Brian Cox, "but Britain invented space-travel. All the technology other countries use...
The international space station is full of technical wizardry from robot arms to state of the art telecommunication devices. The cost of a pen on the ISS runs into thousands of dollars with decades of research leading to its manufacture. So which...
Beijing -- China has revealed the purpose of its manned missions to the moon. The Chinese want to construct their next electronics assembly plant there as the first step toward using the moon as a manufacturing zone. "It's no secret that our count...
Namibia - The 130lb orb is used to store hydrazine aboard the ISS where its inorganic compound liquids facilitate the flushing of the space station dumper. Its mystery appearance in the desert 480 miles from the Namibian capital Windhoek has rattl...
With the Dale Farm evictions in full swing, it emerged yesterday that many of the travellers have already set their sights on a new home: The International Space Station. Recently, a Russian Soyuz rocket exploded just minutes after lift-off, destr...
Moscow - A notorious UFO rat run inside Earth's Van Allen Beltway is the top culprit behind the disappearance of Russian Starfleet's flagship cargo carrier. This morning the entire International Space Station supply program hangs in ruins as monit...
Russian Cosmonaut, Yuri Gaggininnit today revealed that a tour on the international space station isn't necessarily one long round of orbiting the earth and conducting obscure experiments, involving flying ants and lighted tapers in zero gravity cond...
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