NASA astronauts Sunita "Suni" Williams ... now the woman who has spent the longest time in space beyond the confines of a space station or shuttle. "Williams surpassed former NASA astronaut ...

For many years NASA and Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, were the only spacefaring entities in the world. The Chinese National Space Administration launched its first astronaut in 2003. After NASA ...

The two NASA astronauts who have been stuck at the International Space Station may be able to return to Earth sooner than expected. In a Tuesday press release, NASA said that SpaceX would switch ...

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 ...

NASA astronauts, speaking from space, debunked President Donald Trump’s claims that they had been left behind. Sunita Williams said she and fellow astronaut Butch Wilmore were not stranded on ...

In the late 1970s, as the space shuttle era approached ... agency never seriously considered the possibility that women could be astronauts. “There were a few efforts in the 1960s to broaden ...