He was also the primary engineer of the Saturn V rocket, which launched the Apollo moon missions and the Skylab space station. Wernher von Braun was also once a Nazi party member and SS officer ...

Bean and his fellow Skylab crew members captured stereo photographs of the storm using cameras aboard the space station. Meteorologists later used these images, which provided three-dimensional data, ...

Flyn Nichol and Seamus Tomkins, who together form a band called Space Suit, recorded a music video in Point Reyes Station on Sunday. They plan to hand out 18 pairs of tiny maracas to passersby as part ...

Since those early steps, extravehicular activity has helped provide the solutions to many problems that astronauts face in ...

Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams are finally making their way back to Earth after an eight-day mission to space turned into a nine-month-long hiatus at the International Space Station.

Space agencies from around the world launched a total of 244 successful missions into orbit or space in 2024, which is the most in history. The US led the way with over half of those launches ...

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Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. NASA’s newest space telescope has blasted off to map the entire sky like never before. Launched Tuesday ...

There was a glimmer in the air tonight at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, and it wasn't only because a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took to the skies carrying precious NASA cargo. As the ...

donning their SpaceX space suits. SpaceX has also conducted a static fire test of the Falcon 9 rocket, which as of Sunday is upright on the launch pad. McClain, the mission's commander ...