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.
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.
The capture by the International Space Station's robot arm came a day late because of an unexpected, but now resolved, ...
NASA officials said Monday they might go ahead with Tuesday's launch of the space shuttle Discovery even if a fuel sensor problem recurs that scrubbed the flight nearly two weeks ago. Discovery is set ...
The debut mission of Northrop Grumman's new jumbo cargo spacecraft didn't go off without a hitch. The company's first "Cygnus ...
A group of gold commemorative Sacagawea coins, seven of which traveled into orbit aboard a NASA space shuttle, recently sold for more than $3 million.
Space will be "the tip of the spear" in America’s next conflict with China or Russia, and delays in building a secure headquarters for U.S. Space Command are putting the nation at risk, House Armed ...
Spaceflight makes certain human stem cells age faster, a new study has found, furthering scientists’ understanding of the potential effects of space exploration on the human body. Stem cells are found ...