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American astronaut Norman Thagard broke NASA's space endurance record at the time of 84 days, 1 hour and 16 minutes while ...
As of Tuesday afternoon, SpaceX has officially confirmed the next rocket launch is set for 9:30 a.m. on May 28 from Kennedy ...
Four-time spaceflight veteran Peggy Whitson had a good excuse for not showing up Saturday for her own induction ceremony to ...
Veteran NASA astronauts Bernard Harris and Peggy Whitson were inducted today into the prestigious U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame.
Since Eternal Reefs’ founding in 1998, the company has laid to rest the remains of more than 3,000 people, 1,000 of whom are ...
While one is preparing for another launch, two former NASA astronauts were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame.
A dazzling cosmic swirl, NGC 3507 shines alone in this Hubble image, though it secretly belongs to a dynamic galactic duo.
And despite largely staying on NASA property, transporting space shuttle Atlantis required taking down 23 traffic signals, 56 signs and 120 light poles to fit its wide body through the streets.
On Thursday afternoon, Wright stood by the Space Shuttle Atlantis on display ... of 18 women who sewed the blankets for the NASA space shuttles (Atlantis, Endeavour, and Discovery) before their ...
Cargo bay of Atlantis ... that built the International Space Station, and Russian astronauts would ride the shuttle. Once the shuttle program ended in 2011, NASA began using Russian transportation ...
His first spaceflight was on Atlantis − the shuttle he stood under as ... first time he had returned to Kennedy Space Center since retiring from NASA in 1992. According to the Kennedy Space ...
A total of 135 NASA Space Shuttle missions were flown, from the maiden orbital flight of the Columbia in 1981 to the last flight of the Atlantis in 2011. Even though certified for 100 missions ...