Operating in orbit demands engineering solutions beyond what any airliner or rocket could offer—and the Space Shuttle ...

Four decades later, astronaut Marsha Ivins and cinematographer James Neihouse reveal stories from the making of the ...

A proposed mission seeks to retrieve Vanguard-1 and display it as an ancient relic of the space age.

Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev spent twice as much time in space than his team had planned after his country stopped existing ...

Astronaut Don Pettit, who has been at the International Space Station since September, is set to land Saturday in Kazakhstan with two Russians.

White’s book provides a detailed account of STS-1, the first space shuttle mission to reach orbit. From the moment the mission began, however, things went wrong, and White chronicles the many ...

Pop star Katy Perry and journalist Gayle King were among six women who traveled aboard Jeff Bezos-founded Blue Origin’s ...

Soviet Union’s cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to travel to space. Lasting there for just 108 ...

It will be the first time a Space Force craft is refueled in orbit. Such a fuel shuttle could keep missions in space longer and eliminate the need for any craft to suspend its mission to retrieve ...

Dr. Mae Jemison, the first Black woman to go into space, was not amused by comments made by a CBS News host on Monday morning ...

The shuttle is currently located at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia ...