SpaceX Elon Musk is adamant that the space company will eventually make humanity interplanetary by establishing a permanent ...

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What if we told you the federal branch reaching out to the gearhead crowd wasn’t even the Department of Transportation, but actually NASA ... America’s nascent shuttle design into the later ...

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Soaring demand for electricity is leading some companies to not only think out of the box for a solution, but out of this ...

But when NASA sends its astronauts to environments where private space companies cannot yet venture, it should structure those excursions as proof-of-concept missions. “NASA should not be in ...

In the final years of World War II, Nazi Germany conceived an ambitious weapon: the Silbervogel, or "Silver Bird," a suborbital spaceplane designed to bomb New York from the edge of space. Using a ...

The 69-year-old is NASA's oldest active astronaut ... including expeditions to the International Space Station (ISS) and a Space Shuttle mission. He first flew to space in 2002 aboard the Space ...

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.

The X-37B spaceplane touched down on Runway 12 at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, at 11:22 pm local time Thursday (2:22 am EST Friday), capping its high-flying mission with an automated ...

Texas celebrates girls in STEM in March—the Frontiers of Flight Museum partners with NASA year-round to inspire and educate.