The historic Apollo 11 lunar landing on July 20, 1969, was far from a given. Mission Control’s Steve Bales recounts the tense ...

The mission was also Tom Stafford's last spaceflight. The Apollo Command Module Pilot, Vance Brand, would go on to fly on ...

The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project brought Soviet cosmonauts and NASA astronauts together in the first international human ...

When pop star Katy Perry and five other women made a much-publicized trip to the edge of space earlier this year, they faced ...

Veteran actor William Shatner, famously known as Captain James T. Kirk from Star Trek, recently sparked an unexpected buzz ...

NASA is focused on the moon as a crucial stepping stone for future deep space exploration. Earth's moon is a 4.5-billion-year ...

Learn about the major world events and happenings, birthdays, and deaths that took place on July 15. Check what happened ...

What started as a real-life tense mid-space alert became a Hollywood zinger and landed in our everyday lingo.In this piece, ...

The lunar environment poses unique visual hazards. Astronauts face intense ultraviolet radiation, sharp temperature swings, ...

Hit show Rivals, the rollicking TV adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s bonkbuster novel, opened with a supersonic bang last year when champagne corks popped as journalist Beattie Johnson and lothario Rupert ...

After its voyage past Mars, Mariner 4 maintained intermittent communication with JPL and returned data about the interplanetary environment for two more years. But by the end of 1967, the spacecraft ...

Unlike a touchdown, where a spacecraft lands on solid ground with the help of braking systems or parachutes, splashdown involves a water landing.