Curtain raiser for the final flight of the Space Shuttle Discovery, and maybe the final space shuttle mission ever.

Leonid meteor storm will break over the US, North America and Western Africa on the morning of Wednesday, November 18, 2009 (Indian time). This will emit a bright shower of shooting stars in the atmosphere, which can be observed with the naked eye.

Galactic Suite Space Resort, a company based in Barcelona, Spain, says that it is set to open the first hotel in space in 2012.

India has successfully launched its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C14) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota (SHAR Range) in Andhra Pradesh, carrying as payload the country’s ocean-monitoring satellite named Oceansat-2.

Space Station Tranquility module is finally the chosen name. NASA announced on Wednesday that the new module on the international space station (ISS) will be named Tranquility module, after the Sea of Tranquility where Apollo 11 landed on the moon for the first time.

Japan has said that it wants to send bipedal autonomous robots to the Moon by 2020.

The three bacteria species have been named Bacillus Isronensis, Janibacter Hoylei & Bacillus Aryabhatta.

India has finally announced its plans to launch its first manned space mission in 2015.

NASA has delayed the launch of space shuttle Discovery, for the fourth time, to avoid any possibility of malfunction in the shuttle. The new launch date has not been announced as yet.

Axel, the new rover developed by the engineers from NASA’s Jet propulsion laboratory and students at the California Institute of Technology, will now explore terrains which earlier seemed impossible, said Issa A.D. Nesnas, of JPL's robotics and mobility section.