A former astronaut, Bowersox saw his own space station mission abruptly prolonged. He was up there with Don Pettit, who’s ...

After the end of the space shuttle program, NASA turned to private companies to fill the gap. That isn't working out for the ...

The first American, Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard, followed on May 5, 1961. The first woman in space was the Soviet Union’s Valentina Tereshkova in 1963. Sally Ride became the first American ...

Martha and her daughter, Sheryl, share stories of Roger Chaffee, the rookie astronaut assigned to the mission. Lowell Grissom speaks about his brother, Mercury astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom ...

Astronauts Wilmore and Williams were able to ... to remember that NASA has only tested six total new crewed spacecraft (Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Space Shuttle, SpaceX Crew Dragon, and Boeing ...

"They shamefully forgot about the Astronauts, because they considered it to be a very embarrassing event for them," Trump posted on Truth Social on Monday. Such accusations have prompted an outcry ...

Traditionally, NASA has used this landing method for several capsules, including NASA's Gemini, Apollo, Mercury, and others. Moreover, NASA's two stuck astronauts headed back to Earth with SpaceX ...

The technology of bringing humans back from space makes even the best in the business—NASA, Roscosmos and SpaceX—sweat.

A new crew has arrived at the International Space Station in a SpaceX capsule to allow astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore to begin their journey back to Earth. The pair of astronauts have ...

It was launched to deliver four astronauts to the ISS as part of a Nasa crew-swap mission that will allow a pair of stuck astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, to return home after nine months ...