Gemini III lifted off from Cape Kennedy, Florida, carrying astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom and John Young on America’s first ...

A four-member crew, including NASA astronauts Sunita "Suni" Williams and Barry "Butch" Wilmore, left the ISS early Tuesday on ...

The intense heat, generated by friction between the spacecraft and atmospheric particles is shielded with the help of ...

In the final moments of re-entry, drogue parachutes deployed at an altitude of 5,500 feet, helping stabilize the capsule ...

SpaceX’s Dragon capsule will re-enter Earth and splash down off Florida’s coast at 3:27 am IST Wednesday, with the crew ...

Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams, who had been in space for the past nine months, successfully returned to Earth early ...

It is the method favoured by American spacecraft – such as NASA’s Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo – to re-enter Earth. In a ...

Credit: Varda Space via YouTube ... by the camera as the spacecraft interacts with the thick atmosphere at speeds exceeding ...

With Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore set to return to Earth after nearly nine months in space, let's look at how the astronauts' return takes place ...

Tuesday evening, the 'stuck' Starliner astronauts returned on SpaceX Dragon which launched Crew-9. Here's the recap.

They were launched at the International Space Station (ISS) on a test flight of Starliner, a spacecraft built under NASA's contract with Boeing. Wilmore and Williams launched on what they ...

Each Draco thruster generates 90 pounds of force in space. Dragon’s parachute system: Dragon features two drogue parachutes to stabilise the spacecraft during reentry and four main parachutes ...