Finally, just before the big moment comes—perhaps three or four years hence—the first space-bound Mercury Astronaut will be named. The others will be expected to try subsequent flights.

Here’s a look at human spaceflight programs in the United States and around the world. Facts The United States ended its crewed space shuttle program with the launch of Atlantis on July 8, 2011, and ...

Nearly two months after an explosion sent flaming debris raining down on the Turks and Caicos, SpaceX launched another mammoth Starship rocket on Thursday, but lost contact minutes into the test ...

The pair launched last June on a test flight of Boeing ... The first American, Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard, followed on May 5, 1961. The first woman in space was the Soviet Union’s Valentina ...

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