No one saw Earth's poles from space in the more than 400 human spaceflight missions preceding Fram2. The closest any crew ...

The international all-civilian Fram2 crew is the first in space history to fly to orbit with no licensed pilot or trained ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wilmore and Williams, both ex-Navy pilots and veterans of two prior space missions ... with Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov, who spent 437 consecutive days aboard the Mir station.

NASA's Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore made a gentle splashdown off the coast of Florida after an unexpectedly long stay on the space station. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and ...

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

Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev was on the space station Mir when the Soviet Union, which had sent him there, was dissolved in 1991, leaving him marooned for 311 days in space, twice the length of his ...