On June 3, 1965, Ed White became the first American to walk in space when he ventured outside the Gemini capsule into the vacuum of the cosmos. He was among NASA's Astronaut Group 2, an elite ...

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Anil Menon, an Indian-origin NASA astronaut, is set to embark on his first mission to the International Space Station in June ...

On June 18, 1983, she made history aboard the space shuttle. America's first woman in space had joined NASA after responding to a newspaper ad. "I knew that's what I wanted to do," she said.

Bruce McCandless, First Astronaut To Fly Untethered In Space, Has Died He helped develop the jet-powered backpack that allowed him to float away from the shuttle and safely back again. He said he ...

The first child born in space could mark the beginning of the humanization of the rest of the universe. Will it be safe to conceive, carry and raise children off-planet?

Lauren Sánchez will publish her first children's book, "The Fly Who Flew to Space," in September — a dream that's been a decade in the making.

Marine Colonel Nicole Aunapu Mann made history as one of a four-member astronaut crew to blast off from Florida bound for the International Space Station. Mann, 45, became the first Native ...

The stakes were already high. When Apollo 7 launched on October 11, 1968, it was the first time NASA sent astronauts into space since a cabin fire had killed the Apollo 1 crew some 21 months earlier.