Kosmos 482 was part of the Venera program, a series of Soviet probes that set the early benchmark for exploring Venus. Its ...

Holding a daisy to the sky, songstress Katy Perry emerged from a Blue Origin space shuttle before falling to her knees and kissing the hot Texan ground below her. She had been away from Earth for just ...

Don Pettit, NASA's oldest active astronaut, marked his 70th birthday by landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan after 220 days in ...

She was an astronaut, an International Space Station alum, and an aquanaut before she turned 40. It all happened because she ...

carrying NASA astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams on an eight-day mission to the International Space Station followed by a parachute-and-airbag-assisted ground ...

There is a lot of debris in orbit around Earth that sooner or later we will have to contrive a means to go get.

Update: Don Pettit and crew made a safe, parachute-assisted landing at ... In 2008, Pettit was part of a Space Shuttle mission delivering equipment to the space station. Pettit's fourth and ...

Just 73 seconds after lift-off, the space shuttle began to break apart due to a failure in the O-rings—rubber seals designed to separate sections of the rocket boosters. In the freezing 26°F ...

After the U.S. Army assigned Thomas Tate to guided missile training, his life forever changed. He ended up spending decades ...

Pettit, Soyuz MS-26/72S commander Alexey Ovchinin and flight engineer Ivan Vagner undocked from the Russian Rassvet module at 5:57 p.m. EDT, setting up a parachute ... the space shuttle in 1998 ...

Astronaut Amanda Nguyen will become the first Vietnamese-American woman to fly into space, aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard spacecraft, scheduled to launch at 8:30 p.m. on April 14 (Hanoi time).

His second mission, STS-126 in 2008, was a short-duration mission aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour ... space agency Roscosmos confirmed that the parachute-assisted landing was smooth and trouble ...