The first Space Shuttle was originally going to be named Constitution. US President Gerald Ford agreed to rename it ...

The Space Shuttle era ended with Atlantis’s final flight on July 21, 2011, closing a major chapter in space exploration. For ...

The first joint space mission between the United States and Russia (then the Soviet Union) docked in Earth orbit half a ...

Harmful cuts” jeopardize the agency’s mission, more than 280 current and former personnel contend in a scathing dissent.

On July 19, 1985, a high school teacher named Christa McAuliffe was selected to become the first American civilian to fly to ...

Several hundred current and former NASA employees, including at least four retired astronauts, backed a letter that opposes ...

Current and former NASA employees have co-signed a declaration protesting changes at the agency that some say pose a grave ...

Temple native and astronaut Bernard Anthony Harris, Jr. made history as the first African-American to walk in space. In 1995, ...

In 1975, a meet-up between American and Soviet spacefarers in orbit showed that the superpowers could work together. Its ...

Dr. Sidney Chocron has been named a Ballistic Science Fellow by the International Ballistics Society. The honor is awarded to ...