A SpaceX crew is scheduled to launch on March 12, setting the stage for two NASA astronauts to finally return home Joe Raedle/Getty After being stranded in space for nine months, two NASA ...

It takes about eight hours for astronauts to pack and do pre-flight checks on the space station, and then another 17 hours for them to undock and fly back to Earth. He said: 'What I see is a happy ...

Kim, Ryzhikov and Zubritsky are joining NASA astronauts Don Pettit, Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace ...

That was a first for SpaceX, geography-wise: All 16 of its previous astronaut missions had hit the water off Florida, either in the Atlantic Ocean or in the Gulf of Mexico. Indeed, every returning ...

Astronauts also have limited access to water ... that we see is the same that you’d see in someone who is smoking a pack of cigarettes a day,’ explains Scott M. Smith, who is a nutrition ...