📅 Today in History: In 1959, NASA announced its selection of the United States’ first seven astronauts, dubbed the Mercury Seven. Out of 110 candidates, the seven chosen were Scott Carpenter, Gordon ...

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and two Russian crewmates arrived at the International Space Station on board a Russian spacecraft.

Here’s a look at human spaceflight programs in the United States and around the world. Facts The United States ended its crewed space shuttle program with the launch of Atlantis on July 8, 2011, and ...

Inspired by the garments worn by NASA's Mercury 7 astronauts, Barbie famously donned an astronaut suit two years after the world's first woman lifted off for space and almost two decades before a ...

Trump promised to bring back the stranded astronauts from the space station. March 18 those two astronauts that Joe Biden left stranded in space came back safely to Earth, thanks to Elon Musk and ...

Named for Captain Wally Schirra (1923-2007), one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts, T-AKE-8 is the eighth vessel of the Lewis and Clark class of fourteen “underway replenishment vessels ...

Since December 1998, astronauts have performed 274 spacewalks at the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore returned to Earth following an extended stay ...

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore successfully returned to Earth after an extended 286-day mission aboard the ISS due to technical faults. Their return on SpaceX Dragon's ...

The vehicles, standing nearly 27 feet tall and about 13 feet wide, can accommodate up to seven astronauts, though most missions comprise a contingent of four. The Crew-9 mission was the fourth ...

are now primarily how NASA delivers astronauts and cargo into low-Earth orbit. NASA wasn’t so dependent on private companies when it conceived Project Mercury, the country’s first human ...

He was up there with Don Pettit, who’s currently aboard the orbiting lab, when shuttle Columbia broke apart during reentry in 2003, killing all seven on board and grounding ... The first American, ...