The government space agency has vocally promoted diversity and inclusion for decades, even during the first Trump ...

Starliner astronaut Sunita Williams says she and crewmate Butch Wilmore have not been "abandoned" in space, as NASA considers ...

Founded in 1990, the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame is part of the Heroes & Legends attraction at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Harris and Whitson's likenesses, etched in glass and mounted ...

He said his fascination with space came from the Star Wars movies. For Whitson it was the “real-life lunar landing” in 1969 ...

Space was one of Sally Ride’s great loves. The National Geographic documentary, directed by Cristina Costantini, Introduces ...

To be eligible, astronauts must have made their first flight at least 15 years before the induction, must be U.S. citizens and either a NASA-trained shuttle commander, pilot, mission specialist or ...

Explorer 1 became the first successfully launched satellite by the United States when it was sent to space on 31 January 1958. A quick response to the Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik 1, Explorer 1’s ...

With only a single U.S. astronaut aboard to respond to emergencies, operate power, life support and other systems in the NASA segment of the station, high-priority research would grind to a halt.

Strange as it may sound, where the astronauts sat (or “sat” – the ... addressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress, and completed (some might say endured) a round-the-world tour of 22 ...

NASA since 2020 has used SpaceX’s Crew Dragon to ferry U.S. astronauts to and from the International ... Wilmore and Williams’ mission marked Starliner’s first crewed flight and was intended ...