His career took flight with a newspaper ad in Ottawa, where he would later help steer the country under Justin Trudeau.

What to know about Dragon, the SpaceX spacecraft that Elon Musk briefly threatened to “begin decommissioning.” ...

Managing cryogenic fuels for the space sector remains a complex challenge, with boil-off – the natural evaporation of gas as ...

The mint set noon EDT on Thursday (May 15) as its T-0 for the launch of Florida's dollar celebrating the retired spacecraft.

Besides its flights to the International Space Station and Starship program, SpaceX is deeply embedded in the Department of ...

NASA's space shuttle Endeavor touched down safely for the final time at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida after spending 299 days in space throughout the course of its 25 flights. Endeavour was ...

but he is not the oldest person to go to orbit. That was John Glenn, who was the first American astronaut to circle the Earth in 1962, and then flew again in 1998 on the space shuttle Discovery at ...

Though it suffered two tragedies, claiming the lives of 14 astronauts, the space shuttle also opened Earth orbit to more people and more types of people, flying the first American women and ...

After a series of weather-related delays in April, NASA’s Space Shuttle Atlantis successfully launched from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39A, beginning a 10-day mission focused on bolstering the ...

As an aerospace engineering professor, I study how drag affects the movement of spacecraft in orbit. Aerobraking, as the name suggests, is a type of maneuver that uses the thin air in space to ...

The United States Mint is ready to launch the next $1 coin in its American Innovation series, honoring NASA's space shuttle. The mint on Thursday (May 15) will open sales for the golden coins ...

After 53 years stuck in space, a Soviet spacecraft designed to ... leaving the craft with just enough velocity to be marooned in an elliptical orbit around our planet. Now, less than 5,000 miles ...