Space exploration has been marked by tragic disasters, such as the Apollo 1 fire, Soyuz 1 and 11 accidents, and the Space Shuttles Challenger and Columbia tragedies. These events emphasized ...

Here's a look at some others who found themselves stuck in space — by choice or not — along with some cool spaceflight ...

(TNS) — Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, the two NASA astronauts whose one-week stay on the International Space Station grew into a nine-month mission, are coming home. The duo are expected to ...

Wilmore and Williams launched aboard Boeing's Starliner and will return in SpaceX's Dragon.Their first flights were aboard NASA's space shuttle, followed by Russia's Soyuz capsule. Both the ...

The shuttle returned successfully on December 5 ... In April 2008, she survived a rough landing aboard Soyuz TMA-11 when a failed module separation sent the capsule spinning off course, landing ...

Sunita`s life journey is full of coincidences and second options. She never got to do what she wanted as the first choice, ...

Wilmore first flew to space in 2009 on board the Space Shuttle Atlantis ... which was extended due to issues with the Soyuz spacecraft that brought him to orbit. He ultimately returned on a ...

Half a century later, there's a Moon rocket behind those same doors It is 50 years since the very last Saturn rocket rolled ...

the Space Shuttle Atlantis — which NASA had launched on June 8, 2007 — brought her back on June 22. Ms. Williams returned to the ISS in July 2012, this time onboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft ...

(NASA) This completes Williams and Wilmore’s third trip to space, with each having previously flown to the space station on both the space shuttle and Russian Soyuz spacecraft. The duo’s ...