A four-person crew will spend three to five days aboard a SpaceX capsule orbiting above the poles of Earth — a flight path ...

Here’s a look at human spaceflight programs in the United States and around the world. Facts The United States ended its crewed space shuttle program with the launch of Atlantis on July 8, 2011, and ...

The NASA astronauts splashed down on Tuesday in a SpaceX capsule after problems with a Boeing vehicle set in motion a ...

That said, we know for sure that one person has taken alcohol into space, before drinking it on the Moon. During Apollo 11, ...

Michigan's own Captain Jerry Linenger is, among other things, a retired United States Navy Flight Surgeon and NASA astronaut.

In 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law. The landmark legislation ...

Here's a look at some others who found themselves stuck in space — by choice or not — along with some cool spaceflight ...

The Science Museum in London is closing its almost 40-year-old 'Exploring Space' gallery to establish a new 'Space' gallery ...

The two astronauts will now be returning on a SpaceX capsule. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who traveled to the International Space Station last June for what was initially a ...

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

Wilmore and Williams do not hold the record for the longest stay in orbit, which belongs to cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov, who ...

or the world record held by Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov, who spent 437 continuous days aboard the Mir space station. Still, the unexpected nature of their prolonged stay away from their ...