A new series of pictures of the moon show five of the six American flags put up by the Apollo crews 40 years ago are still standing.

Yesterday the Russian Soyuz spacecraft launched and is now on its way to the International Space Station. Since retiring their own shuttle program, NASA has been paying Russia millions of dollars to get astronauts into space.

NASA's budget is scrutinized by Congress, igniting debate over the direction of the space agency.

The agency wants to figure out how it would feed astronauts on any future mission to Mars, so it needs people to try to cook and eat astronaut food for four long months.