Blue Origin's all-female 11-minute flight on April 14 reminds us that there's a long line of women who have been making ...

Exploration has never been a safe occupation. For every significant discovery, there has been sacrifice by those seeking out ...

The Buran was the Soviet Union’s answer to NASA's Space Shuttle, featuring innovations like automated flight and superior safety mechanisms. But after a single flight in 1988, the program was ...

The first person in space was the Soviet Union's Yuri Gagarin on April 12 ... Mark Kelly of Arizona, also served as a NASA astronaut on short shuttle flights. A NASA tally shows 721 people ...

A former astronaut, Bowersox saw his own space station mission abruptly prolonged. He was up there with Don Pettit, who’s currently aboard the orbiting lab, when shuttle Columbia broke apart during ...

Mark Kelly of Arizona, also served as a NASA astronaut on short shuttle flights ... The first person in space was the Soviet Union’s Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961. The first American, Mercury ...

When that fear recedes, NASA tends to decline, drifting without an obvious purpose—for instance, canceling the Space Shuttle program after the fall of the Soviet Union. That outer space has ...

Recovery vessels approach the Dragon capsule with the SpaceX Crew-9 astronauts shortly after splashdown on March 18, 2025, off the coast of Florida. 32,256 people played the daily Crossword ...