The Science Museum in London is closing its almost 40-year-old 'Exploring Space' gallery to establish a new 'Space' gallery ...

The spacesuit worn by the first Briton in space, the Russian capsule that brought Britain's first professional astronaut back to Earth, and the only flown-to-the-moon Apollo command module to be ...

The SpaceX Dragon capsule, containing Williams and Wilmore, along with their colleagues Aleksandr Gorbunov and Nick Hague, undocked from the International Space Station early on Tuesday morning. This ...

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

If you’ve ever been to Washington DC, you know the Smithsonian isn’t just a building, instead it’s a collection of 19 museums, 21 libraries, 9 research centers, and a zoo. Even though there ...

NEST WHERE THAT IS WHERE THE CAPSULE WILL BE PLACED IN ORDER FOR IT TO BE TRANSLATED TO A FORWARD END OF THE VESSEL AND FOR ASTRONAUTS TO EGRESS. >> AND BEFORE THAT DOES TAKE PLACE, WE WILL HAVE ...

Just four years after the first human traveled to space, a Soviet cosmonaut and later an American astronaut took next steps that would be vital to exploration: They walked in space. A spacewalk, when ...

The aircraft also played a key role in the U.S. space program, retrieving Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo capsules from the ocean after splashdown. Additionally, a modified VH-3 variant has served as ...

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