James Neihouse had one more thing to share. He pulled out a frame displaying strips of tape, each of which had notes from ...

Soviet Union’s cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to travel to space. Lasting there for just 108 ...

The crew will observe Earth's polar regions 430 kilometers above the surface, allowing the Crew Dragon Resilience to travel ...

April 12-14, 1981 – The first space shuttle mission. Space Shuttle Columbia, the first reusable spacecraft, orbits Earth 37 times before landing. June 18-24, 1983 – Sally Ride becomes the ...

The director of 'Spacewoman,' about the Eileen Collins, the first woman to command a space shuttle mission, had its European ...

For a brief period in the 1980s, astronauts went untethered outside their space capsule, flying with jet packs. The photos ...

Two Texas senators have introduced legislation that would strip the Smithsonian of the retired space shuttle Discovery and send it to Houston for display. NASA's retired space shuttle Discovery ...

Dr. Mae Jemison, the first woman of color in space, shares wisdom and encouragement with "CBS Mornings" co-host Gayle King ...

But they were not the first to stay unexpectedly in space ... While they were in space, a NASA space shuttle disintegrated as it re-entered Earth’s atmosphere and killed all seven astronauts ...

She became a pilot and then the first woman to pilot and command a space shuttle through sheer willpower. Alongside all that was the complex emotional journey for her own family. It was this ...