It has been 54 years since NASA landed astronauts on the Moon for the third time. On February 5, 1971, astronauts Alan ...

It's been 39 years since the Challenger space shuttle, carrying seven people, took off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center, ...

Running around a cylinder for a few minutes each ... Setting aside the challenge of ensuring astronauts have enough food, water and oxygen to survive, NASA will also need to keep them healthy ...

NASA's Day of Remembrance honours astronauts who died during Apollo 1, Space Shuttle Challenger, and Space Shuttle Columbia missions. Observed on the ...

The first shuttle mission of 1995, STS-63 included several historic firsts. As part of Phase 1 of the International Space ...

In June 2024 The Economist remembered Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders, the mission’s lunar module pilot. Anders also took ...

The third Starship test flight last March saw the spacecraft reach its planned trajectory and fly halfway around the world ...

16 minutes: Second-stage liquid oxygen loading begins. 7 minutes: Falcon 9 begins engine chill prior to launch. 1 minute: Command flight computer begins final prelaunch checks; propellant tank ...

The “zebrafish astronauts” underwent rigorous selection ... they entered a self-sustaining world — a sealed, 1.2-liter tank, about the size of two water bottles. “Aquatic plants produce oxygen through ...

Looking back at the weather 39 years ago and how it impacted the Challenger launch, leading to one of the most tragic losses in space flight history.