Thad McCauley wanted to be an astronaut when he grew up. Instead, he became an art teacher. But now his art is in space.

For the first time, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has put its New Shepard suborbital rocket ship through a couple ... become NASA’s first Black astronaut in the 1960s — but he ...

At the same time, NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured the launch in a long exposure from the International Space Station (ISS) some 250 miles above Earth. The result is a rocket-launch photo unlike ...