One moment occurred in 1984 when NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II became the first human to spacewalk or float free from ...

After the end of the space shuttle program, NASA turned to private companies to fill the gap. That isn't working out for the ...

The Space Shuttle was one of the most complex and ambitious spacecraft ever designed, pioneering reusable spaceflight and enabling decades of missions. With massive solid rocket boosters, advanced ...

Reaching Earth’s orbit is a complex, high-stakes engineering challenge, and the Space Shuttle was one of the most advanced spacecraft ever designed to do it. This video explores the nine-minute ascent ...

15-foot wide spacecraft bore a striking image on the tarmac of Vanderberg. It resembles the famous NASA space shuttle in that it is solar-powered, though it notably lacks any sort of portholes and ...

The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance docked with the International Space Station just after midnight Sunday beginning the ...

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, the two NASA astronauts whose one-week stay on the International Space Station grew into a ...

A total lunar eclipse was visible across North America overnight Wednesday (March 13 to 14, 2025), including this unique perspective from Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

That remained true for the Gemini and Apollo programs and the eventual development of the space shuttle, a reusable spacecraft that could glide to a landing rather than be recovered from the ocean.

The SpaceX Crew-10 launch attempt was scrubbed Wednesday from Kennedy Space Center meaning two Boeing Starliner astronauts ...

Meanwhile, the Starliner spacecraft had landed on September ... period of time − and was even an issue during week-long Space Shuttle missions. Astronauts return to normal in the weeks post ...

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have returned to Earth after being stuck in space for more than nine months.