Even though the public often called them astronauts, payload specialists were not selected through NASA's formal astronaut ...

Shukla’s mission is more than just a spaceflight—it’s a symbol of India’s return to human space exploration. He carries a ...

As India prepares to send Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla into space aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon, a new chapter in the ...

As the fracas between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump escalated to the point of Musk threatening to decommission ...

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

Four-time spaceflight veteran Peggy Whitson had a good excuse for not showing up Saturday for her own induction ceremony to ...

Maintaining the fuel at temperatures below –183°C is key: even small heat leaks in space can cause gases to boil off.

Pool, NASA Photo/Houston Chronicle A veteran of two space shuttle flights and six spacewalks, Behnken will be responsible for rendezvous, docking, and undocking the Crew Dragon with the ISS.

The consecutive failures may have decreased the likelihood SpaceX can meet NASA’s goal of landing on the moon in 2027, ...

Space businesses are queueing up to get payloads into space. Others are looking to clean up the mess they leave behind.