Kosmos 482 was part of the Soviet Union's storied Venera program of Venus exploration. The probe launched toward the second ...

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

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 ...

there were printers aboard the Space Shuttle, and the story behind them is fascinating. The push for printers in space came from the combined forces of NASA’s love for checklists and the need ...

Before leaving the space shuttle to perform tasks in space ... wears special equipment consisting of a partialpressure suit, a parachute harness assembly, and a parachute pack.

The crew of six launched from Texas Monday aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard, flew to just over the edge of space for 11 minutes, and landed under parachute ... NASA's old space shuttle landing ...