Former astronaut and NFL player Leland Melvin is ... mission specialist on spaceflights in 2008 and 2009, part of crews that delivered equipment and conducted research on the International Space ...

The story of how former Heritage High School star athlete Leland Melvin earned a full ride to the University of ... He is scheduled to take off on his first mission Thursday on the Space Shuttle ...

The so-called "right stuff" manifests rather differently in "Apollo 13". Sure, this generation of astronauts knows the final ...

Ryan Gosling journeys to space in the trailer for the sci-fi film "Project Hail Mary," which hits theaters in March.

The Axiom Space Ax-4 mission led by record-setting Peggy Whitson making her fifth trip to space is set to launch with three men from countries that have not sent a person to space in more than four… ...

On June 3, 1965, during the Gemini IV mission, astronaut Edward White made history as the first American to conduct a ...

Carl Kuehner became Blue Origin's astronaut number 70, which based on prior precedent, was determined by the seat on board ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — As SpaceX launched the four-person crew of the Fram2 mission on Monday night, it was a takeoff for the history books as they will be the first humans to ever orbit Earth ...

The New Horizons spacecraft became the first spacecraft to explore Pluto up close when it flew by the dwarf planet and its moons on July 14, 2015.. In 2019, the space probe reached the Kuiper belt ...

Axiom-4 is now scheduled to launch from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center at 8:22 a.m. on Tuesday, June 10."I watched the first guys walk on the moon when I was 9 years old and I was ...

NASA via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- NASA is planning on decommissioning the International Space Station (ISS) by the end of 2030. But before that happens, Axiom Space, a privately funded space infras ...

Back in June 2024, two NASA astronauts had no idea that their mission, which was supposed to take less than two weeks, would turn into a nine-month stay at the International Space Station. One ...