Astronaut Edgar Dean Mitchell's experience in space led him to found the Institute of Noetic Sciences, which explores the science behind psychic and spiritual phenomena.

He helped rescue the crippled Apollo 13 in 1970. And on Feb. 5, 1971, he became the sixth man to walk on the moon. While many of his fellow 1960s "right stuff" astronauts lead quiet, sometimes ...

Tom Hanks said he knows for certain there are two things that are going to happen in the future of space exploration. One, ...

Apollo 16 astronaut and moon walker Charlie Duke left ... 1972 in Florida, his two sons were living in Houston. When he launched, his elder son Charles was 7 and younger son Tom was nearly 5.

Though it was still cutting-edge technology at the time. Most people remember astronauts who walked ... Think of it as the ...

Fred Haise embarked on a virtual mission, and landed in an auditorium full of students at Lone Grove Middle School.

One, the day will come at some point when astronauts ... still in mid-fall, Duke rolled right and landed on his side. He then bounced onto his back. "First off, what hit me — 'I'm still alive.' ...

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore's and Suni Williams's eight-day mission lasted nine months. How did they adjust?

Figuring out how to make spacecraft more accessible to astronauts with physical disabilities can also make them safer for ...

The post-mission recovery and medical teams rushed them to the Nasa Johnson Space Center in Houston, US. The astronauts need ...