Some 140 miles above France, American astronauts opened a spacecraft hatch and found themselves face to face with cosmonauts ...

In 1961, President Kennedy challenged the nation to land a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth before the decade was out. That kind of clarity — specific with regard to destination and ...

Preparing for retirement is often compared to preparing for a long trip — and there is perhaps no longer trip ever prepared for than going to the moon.

I knew I was alone,” he observed later, “in a way that no earthling has ever been before.” That quote is immortalized on a ...

While we may remember the "one small step" more than anything else, the first Lunar Rover has its own interesting story ...

Happy Birthday, Kennedy Space Center! On July 1, 1962, NASA established the Launch Operations Center — which was later renamed the Kennedy Space Center — on the east coast of Florida.

And with a mere 4,223 people, Melbourne had fewer residents than Cocoa's population of 4,245. From those humble beginnings, rocket-fueled population growth during the Space Race of the 1950s and '60s ...

India, Poland and Hungary are back in human spaceflight. SpaceX launched the countries’ first astronauts in more than 40 years Wednesday, sending them on a chartered flight to the International Space ...

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Tuesday that the Department of Health and Human Services plans to launch an advertising campaign to encourage Americans to adopt wearable ...

Kennedy testified before the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee about health spending cuts and health agency mergers.