As tens of millions of people around the world watched two US astronauts safely return to earth, a key player in Australia’s ...

High school social studies teacher Christa McAuliffe of New Hampshire was selected from a pool of 10,000 applicants. With six ...

Since those early steps, extravehicular activity has helped provide the solutions to many problems that astronauts face in ...

The Nixon administration's decision to end the Apollo program and focus on building a reusable Space Shuttle was ... a military satellite with its Alpha rocket and launch it within 27 hours ...

The military keeps in-flight details on the X-37B relatively quiet. A new photo gives the first look at what the view is from space.

There are multiple factors driving the excitement and scientific investment in space travel — our innate urge to know the ...

Long before the first rays of sunlight brushed the California horizon, an extraordinary homecoming took place. The U.S. military’s experimental space plane, the X-37B, touched down in secrecy, its ...

In 1980, amid some complaints that the space program was financially wasteful, Denver took the opposing view ... on board the eventual launch of their space shuttle, a role they dubbed a ...

Astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, after an unexpected stay at the International Space Station (ISS) for more than ...

The station was damaged after its launch ... but on one shuttle mission, STS-49, a third crew member joined the team outside the shuttle when two astronauts were unable to catch a satellite.

Surfing is booked by the hour, but you can and should make a day of it by also booking a cable park session and water park ...