Lovell's career at NASA began in September 1962 and he embarked on his first space mission for the Gemini 7 mission on ...

The film "Debriefing Apollo 8," released in 1969, documents the historic Apollo 8 mission, which marked humanity's first orbit around the Moon. It highlights the collaborative efforts of numerous ...

With an annual salary ranging from $125,133 to $162,672, the astronauts could have earned between $93,850 and $122,004 in ...

The Gulfstream III's versatility eventually made it an ideal platform for multiple other specialized missions, including ...

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 ...

The slow race of getting NASA's Space Launch System rocket pieced together for next year's Artemis II moon mission jumped a ...

Astronaut Edgar Dean Mitchell's experience in space led him to found the Institute of Noetic Sciences, which explores the science behind psychic and spiritual phenomena.

Astronaut Frank Borman, for example, vomited less than 24 hours into the Apollo 8 mission to the moon, creating a mess for him and his crewmates to clean up. As the space tourism industry ramps up, ...

Sonoma’s Rusty Schweickart appears in “Apollo 1,” a new documentary film about the mission, and will participate in a panel discussion after one of the showings during the Sonoma International Film ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published in print on February 8, 2004. Mitchell died in ... Mitchell just missed ill-fated Apollo 13 mission with crewmate Alan Shepherd The space ...