The Saturn V rocket was able to attain 24,791 miles per hour with Apollo 10, setting the record for the fastest reentry into ...

Before the ISS dies, however, it will help birth its own replacement—one that will be built and launched by the private ...

Veteran NASA astronauts Bernard Harris and Peggy Whitson were inducted today into the prestigious U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame.

Dr. Bernard Harris Jr., a decorated astronaut who became the first Black person to perform a spacewalk in 1995, is being ...

On June 5, the San Juan Stargazers will celebrate NASA’s 55th anniversary of the Apollo 13 “most successful failure” mission with Pagosa Springs’ own Tom Hanchett. Everyone is ...

I shaan Patel, a rising University of Virginia fourth-year student, has joined the orbit of Astronaut Scholars.

Working in condensed matter physics, University of Virginia Astronaut Scholar Ishaan Patel sees a future in research.

The Houston-based Apollo Chamber Players has announced their upcoming 18th season, American Story, a series of four themed ...

On. Oct. 11, 1968, Apollo 7 launched into space with NASA astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham. This was the first mission of the Apollo program that carried a crew into space.

Apollo 7, Lunar Module Pilot, R. Walter Cunningham working inside the Command Module. Credit: NASA Walter Cunningham was an American astronaut who served as the lunar module pilot on the Apollo 7 ...