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

Since the dawn of the space age, human exploration beyond Earth's atmosphere has served as the definitive showcase for ...

The Falcon 9 rocket flying the mission, Starlink 11-7, carried a total of 27 satellites to orbit from Vandenberg Space Force ...

The Spiral’s primary mission, had it made it beyond the test stage, would have been a combination of reconnaissance and ...

Apollo 13 was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and would have been the third moon landing in 1970. An ...

Sixty years ago, a NASA astronaut’s antics on a spaceflight into low-Earth orbit sparked a national controversy in the U.S.

Apollo 9 astronaut and longtime Sonoma resident Rusty Schweickart spoke to a sold-out crowd after the Sonoma International Film Festival’s screening of the new documentary, “Apollo 1” on Saturday, ...

Before Neil Armstrong’s legendary first steps on the Moon in 1969, Nasa had to ensure that the lunar surface was well-mapped ...

SpaceX on Monday launched a Falcon 9 rocked carrying a classified payload for the U.S. Department of Defense from Cape ...

No one has been back to the moon for over 50 years, but the reasons why are multifaceted and not obvious at first glance.

That isn’t real.” My immigrant grandfather Andrew said this in Greek to my parents as they watched the live broadcast on ...

From the lunar landing to the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, here are some bold space missions in history.