Columbia mission commander Rick Husband is most often spoken of in the context of his death alongside his fellow astronauts in 2003. However, he is remembered by his hometown of Amarillo as a ...
Though NASA has a robust culture of safety, tragedy has occasionally struck. Three astronauts were killed during training for ...
US former NASA astronaut Joan Higginbotham, 60, who waited for nearly 20 years ahead of her 2006 space mission, says space tourists may be able to weekend in orbit in just five years' time.
On Sept. 26, 1983, a Russian Soyuz rocket exploded on the launchpad. Two cosmonauts were inside the spacecraft, and they barely made it out alive. About 90 seconds before the rocket was supposed to ...
On Sept. 26, 2025, one person was killed and several injured in an early morning 4-vehicle traffic crash near Kennedy Space Center, Max Brewer Bridge.
Sceptics term the Artemis mission too ambitious and risky but space exploration has led to surprising advances in science and engineering ...
Joan Higginbotham never planned on becoming an astronaut.