The Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft was detached from the Earth-facing port of the Unity module by the Canadarm2 robotic ...

From the astronaut's perspective, the view from a window during reentry ... up to seven astronauts and various payloads into low Earth orbit. The Shuttle launched like a rocket, operated in space ...

Williams and Wilmore have been onboard the space station ... a deorbit burn. It will last for seven-and-a-half minutes. This ...

Operators follow a 25-year rule: at this point, a satellite’s mission is deemed to have ended and it is lowered into the atmosphere where gravity and friction kicks in. While this helps clear space, ...

NASA’s Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, whose weeklong Boeing Starliner mission turned into an extended stay in space, have ...

The spacecraft will now execute a series of departure burns ... and from the space station until it's abandoned in 2030 and steered to a fiery reentry. By then, it will have been up there more ...

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

Crew-9 splashdown recap: Scroll down to read updates from the return of Crew-9, which included Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams. Splashdown occurred at 5:57 p.m. EDT off the Gulf Coast of Florida ...

The NASA X-38 was an experimental, reusable re-entry ... up to seven International Space Station (ISS) crewmembers to Earth” after being carried to the ISS “in the cargo bay of a space shuttle ...