A 70mm IMAX camera used to shoot The Dream is Alive, now in the National Air and Space Museum's collection National Air and Space Museum It takes a lot to be an astronaut. Today, American astronau ...

Susan Baily, professor of radiation cancer biology at Colorado State University, says that the longer an astronaut spends in space, the more complex their transition to Earth will be. “It’s all very ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit will return to Earth from the International Space Station Saturday, alongside his two Russian ...

An 18-karat gold version of the first watch ... Gemini and Apollo astronaut Walter "Wally" Schirra. The Armstrong watch also commanded the third most-ever paid for a space-related artifact ...

A veteran NASA astronaut who ... Pettit's first spaceflight came in 2003 when he served as science officer during the six-month Expedition 6 at the space station. Previously, he also served ...

Astronauts will attempt to grow mushrooms in space for the first time during SpaceX's upcoming Fram2 mission. Launching aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as early as Monday (March 31), the Fram2 ...

an Australian company aiming to be the first to grow mushrooms in microgravity. And the firm is about to get its chance: When SpaceX’s Fram2 mission launches four private astronauts to space no ...

"Space is an unforgiving environment and just becoming an astronaut does not change the basic human physiology," MoS Jitendra Singh said. Indian Air Force (IAF) Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla ...

US astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have revealed their first reactions after learning their week-long test flight was about to turn into a nine-month space odyssey. “Deep inside ...

The private mission also carries the first astronauts from Poland and Hungary to the space station. India has also picked Group Captain Prasanth Balakrishnan Nair as a designated astronaut ...