Foale — a distinguished veteran of six space missions who retired in 2013 — takes us back to that day of May 25, 1997, when a ...

Houston and NASA played a big role in launching the International Space Station, helping us go farther out into orbit ...

Maryland International Raceway’s junior dragster team wins NHRA Eastern Conference Finals championship at Bristol. Valarie ...

Sasha Lazutkin and his wife Lyudmila talk about the arrival of American astronauts at Star City. The Shuttle–Mir Program was an unprecedented collaboration between former Cold War rivals Russia and ...

On July 8, 2011, the Space Shuttle Atlantis was launched from the Kennedy Space Center. The mission was named STS-135. This was the final flight of the Space Shuttle program. The Space Shuttle program ...

Space has been captivating people from the moment we began looking up at the skies. Traveling to space was an impossible idea reserved for the realm of artwork, books, and film, until science caught ...

One of the crowning achievements of the Space Shuttle program is the construction of the International Space Station. The International Space Station (ISS) is a massive crewed laboratory facility ...

FILE - The Russian space station Mir is seen from space shuttle Atlantis during a fly around after Atlantis undocked from Mir Thursday, March 28, 1996, in this image from television. KABUL, ...

Proposal seeks approximately $20 million in non-dilutive NASA funding for Phase 1 lunar technology demonstrations and if approved, would support Astrotech's long-term lunar strategy. AUSTIN, Texas, ...

As NASA breaks into new frontiers, interest in human spaceflight seems to be enjoying a buzzy renaissance. In both science fiction and actual spaceflight, 2026 feels like a year in which the ...

On the morning of November 15, 1988, a Soviet spacecraft named Buran lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, circled the Earth twice, and landed itself on a runway in a snowstorm with ...