The instantaneous launch happened at 7:03 p.m. ET ... which holds down the rocket before liftoff. If there was a scrub, the next attempt would have been set for Saturday night. NASA's Public ...

NASA introduced its first group of astronauts, known as the Mercury 7, to the nation and the world. The event took place in the ballroom of the Dolley Madison House on Lafayette Square in Washington, ...

On April 9, 1959, NASA introduced the “Mercury Seven,” its first seven astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Donald “Deke” Slayton, to ...

The crew, made up of all women, also includes a NASA rocket scientist, a bioastronautics research scientist and a film ...

A fresh crew of space travelers has arrived at the International Space Station after a flawless launch and docking, beginning ...

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and two Russian crewmates arrived at the International Space Station on board a Russian spacecraft.

Lockheed Martin has been part of all NASA Mars missions to date and it has been part of every single sample return mission to ...

NASA celebrated the release of its Artemis 2 crew patch by projecting the insignia's art onto the iconic Vehicle Assembly ...

and the launch was delayed out of an abundance of caution. As made clear by both NASA and SpaceX there were no malfunctions with the Falcon 9 rocket or the Dragon capsule. The capsule is called ...

A NewsNation exclusive reveals NASA’s high-tech plan to save Earth if an asteroid ever comes barreling toward the planet. The NEO Surveyor, set to launch in 2027, is the first spacecraft ...

This rocket's first stage also lofted the SPHEREx space telescope and PUNCH solar probes for NASA on March 11 ... landing at Vandenberg about 7.5 minutes after launch on Friday morning as planned.