During a routine ground test in January 1967, astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee were sealed inside their ...

The episode began on a somber note. Six months had passed since the Sojourner 1 mission to Titan began, and the crew, ...

On May 5, 1961, Navy Commander Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. is launched into space aboard the Freedom 7 space capsule, becoming ...

The sweep of 2014 had placed Jayalalithaa at a height that suggested not merely victory, but absolute control. Tamil Nadu had ...

Artemis 3 will evaluate the AxEMU suit in Earth orbit in 2027, a necessary validation step before any astronaut wears it on the lunar surface. That sequencing is deliberate. It is also a reminder of ...

International cooperation successfully saved 19 distressed crew members, including 18 Chinese nationals and one Vietnamese national, in African waters on Wednesday. At around 10 pm on Tuesday, the ...

If the great brain of NASA were attached to any particular sense, it was the eye,” wrote Norman Mailer in his psychedelic history of the Apollo program. Whatever else one may say of the agency, its ...

International cooperation successfully saved 19 distressed crew members, including 18 Chinese nationals and one Vietnamese national, in African waters on Wednesday. At around 10:00 pm on Tuesday, the ...

“If the great brain of NASA were attached to any particular sense, it was the eye,” wrote Norman Mailer in his psychedelic history of the Apollo program. Whatever else one may say of the agency, its ...

Astronaut James Lovell, who was commander of the 1970 Apollo 13 mission that managed to get back to earth safely after an oxygen tank explosion, has died. He was 97. NASA confirmed his death in a ...

Nasa's Artemis II mission has successfully sent four astronauts sweeping around the far side of the Moon and landed them safely back home. The Orion spacecraft performed admirably and the images the ...