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

PUNCH Spacecraft Show First Complete Images Of Sun’s Corona And Solar Wind Together In A Nutshell Four suitcase-sized ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft successfully launched this morning from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, with NASA astronaut Chris Williams and cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev ...

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 ...

NASA is about to send one of its astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) in what appears to be the first-ever Thanksgiving Day launch of an American crew member. Blasting off early on ...

The three-person crew will spend about eight months aboard the orbital laboratory conducting scientific research. This mission comes as the ISS marks 25 years of continuous human presence in orbit.

As NASA prepared astronauts for its second mission into space, National Geographic had exclusive behind-the-scenes access for the intense and out-of-this-world training these pioneers underwent.

In Columbus, Ohio, there’s a place where burgers are served with a side of stardust and breakfast comes with a cosmic twist. The Mercury Diner isn’t just another roadside eatery – it’s an ...