And that was all more or less settled until last week when the two US senators from Texas, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, filed ...

“Going to a theater, with that large of a screen, really makes you feel like you’re part of it, and I think that’s what was ...

It was 28 January 1986, and the Space Shuttle Challenger was gearing up for take off ... NASA has since shared the transcript of the flight, and just seven seconds in, Smith can be heard saying: “Go, ...

The placement of Discovery has been a sensitive topic since the space shuttle was officially moved to the museum in 2012. It flew its final flight aboard a Boeing 747 to Dulles International Airport.

Mercury astronaut John Glenn was 77 when he returned to orbit on a short shuttle flight in 1998. But he’d been gone from NASA ...

Rehoming NASA's fleet of space shuttles took a lot of coordination in 2012. Space shuttle Endeavour crawled along the streets ...

For the first time since Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova's solo flight in 1963 ... was the first woman to pilot and command a space shuttle. In her 2021 memoir, she details the pressures ...

If this flight is to have ... star to promote her concert in space, which she did when she held up a butterfly-shaped piece of paper to the cameras inside the shuttle midflight with her new ...

getting to know their shuttle, space suits and procedures. They will have been guided through what the flight feels and sounds like, learning everything from how to respond to ground control to ...

Pettit, Soyuz MS-26/72S commander Alexey Ovchinin and flight ... space over four flights. As for Pettit's age, John Glenn, the first American in orbit, was 77 when he flew aboard the space shuttle ...

For the first time since Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova’s solo flight in 1963, a spacecraft will enter ... Eileen Collins was the first woman to pilot and command a space shuttle. In her 2021 ...

Starliner had flown to within a stone's throw of the space station, a safe harbor, if only they could reach it. But already, the failure of so many thrusters violated the mission's flight rules.