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 ...

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. Related ...

The Mercury rocket marked America’s first steps into human spaceflight, but its very design limited how long its success could last. In this segment, we look back at how the Redstone and Atlas ...

In a project of Herculean proportions, British author and historian Andy Saunders has returned to the NASA archives to follow up his epic "Apollo Remastered" photographic book from 2022 to create and ...

Those were the words Alan Shepard used 60 years ago Wednesday to note his cockpit timepiece had begun running. This meant his Redstone rocket booster had left the ground sending him and his one-man ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA introduced its newest astronauts Monday, 10 scientists, engineers and test pilots chosen from more than 8,000 applicants to help explore the moon and possibly Mars. For ...

Six decades have now passed since some of the most iconic Project Gemini spaceflights. The 60th anniversary of Gemini 4, when Ed White conducted the first US spacewalk, came in June. The next mission, ...

The press called them The Next Nine--as in the nine fellows to follow the Mercury Seven into the great space race that captured a whole generation's imagination. Jim Lovell didn't pass the health test ...