The first astronaut crew to fly directly over Earth’s poles splashed down safely on Friday after nearly four days on orbit. “The ride to orbit was much smoother than I had anticipated,” Wang ...

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 ...

Then he graduated from Harvard Medical School. And on Tuesday, he blasted off as part of his latest act: astronaut. When novelist Wesley Chu first learned about Kim, a 41-year-old father of three ...

NASA astronaut Wilmore disclosed his secret to survive in space, stating that he was virtually connected with the Providence Baptist Church in Pasadena, Texas. NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore ...

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky., docked their Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft with the ISS at 4:57 a.m. EDT and then opened the hatch at 7:28 ...

Here’s how it works. On April 9, 1959, NASA introduced its very first astronaut class. This dashing group of young men is known as the Mercury 7. They were all military test pilots before they ...

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