It was a cloudy Saturday morning on the Space Coast when 12-year-old Tal Ramon anxiously waited with his family for the ...

An annual memorial was held at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Every fourth Thursday in January, NASA remembers fallen astronauts.

NASA announced the selection of its 13th group of astronaut candidates. The diverse group comprised 23 candidates – seven ...

The seven-astronaut crew, led by commander Richard ... The mission, commanded by Eileen Collins — NASA's first female shuttle commander — faced a near-critical challenge when a hydrogen ...

Eileen Collins, the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle and the first to command a Space Shuttle mission, pictured with her daughter, Bridget. Then there is Spacewoman, a look at the extraordinary ...

Director Cristina Costantini's documentary about the first U.S. woman in space bows at the annual Utah film festival.

NEEDHAM - Massachusetts native and astronaut Suni Williams said she's "trying to remember what it's like to walk" after being stuck in space for almost seven months. Williams on Monday was ...

Nasa astronaut Suni Williams, one of two astronauts stuck on the International Space Station, ventured outside for a spacewalk on Thursday for the first time since arriving on board seven months ago.

Collins, who in addition to being an astronaut was a test pilot and a major general in the reserve of the United States Air Force, retired from NASA in 1970, just a year after the historic mission.