Houston, the site of mission control for astronaut training, just got two new additions from Texas. Rebecca Lawler and Anna ...

From a Cape Canaveral blockhouse the seven Mercury astronauts watched tensely last week as the countdown neared zero. Atop a towering Redstone rocket rested the one-ton Mercury space capsule of ...

Space is often described as silent, tranquil, and beautiful. A black infinity of stars, traversed by gleaming ships, where ...

The crucial and groundbreaking Gemini missions came after the swaggering heroics of the Mercury flights, immortalized in book ...

China's space agency has announced it will return a damaged spacecraft docked on Tiangong space station to Earth without crew after a suspected debris strike left it unfit for flight. The three ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on Nov. 29, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Nov. 29, 1961, Enos the chimp was launched from ...

The dots connect, the veil lifts and what was once confusing now feels undeniable Clarity arrives when you least expect it! On Nov. 29, Mercury will station direct, officially concluding a retrograde ...

American astronomer-turned-medical physicist and now NASA astronaut Chris Williams joined two Russian cosmonauts aboard a Soyuz ferry ship Thursday for a Thanksgiving Day flight to the International ...

WATCH: In the days leading up to John Glenn’s history-making orbital flight on Feb. 20, 1962, Cocoa Beach was the center of global attention — and the BBC’s famed Panorama program was there to ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. BEIJING — China launched the Shenzhou 22 spacecraft on Tuesday to help bring back a team of astronauts after a ...

BEIJING (AP) — China launched the Shenzhou 22 spacecraft on Tuesday to help bring back a team of astronauts after a damaged spacecraft left them temporarily stranded on China’s space station. The ...

China launched an emergency space mission on Tuesday to join astronauts stranded at the country's space station. The unmanned Shenzhou-22 spacecraft was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch ...