They will swab the exterior of the International Space Station to collect microbiological samples surviving in the vacuum of ...

Lost in the drama of President Donald Trump's flurry of executive orders and Inauguration Day announcements was this: He ...

the booster stack that graces the entryway to Space Shuttle Atlantis® and by Heroes & Legends with a larger-than-life portrait of the Mercury 7 astronauts. “We are proud to sponsor Kennedy ...

John Glenn was the only one of the Mercury Seven astronauts to fly on the space shuttleon STS-95 in October-November 1998. The flight came 36 years after his only other space mission, Mercury ...

On January 21, 1960, a monkey named Miss Sam launched on a Little Joe rocket to help NASA test the launch escape system for its new Mercury spacecraft. This spacecraft would ultimately carry the first ...

On Oct. 29, 1998, space shuttle Discovery carried 77-year-old John Glenn, the oldest shuttle astronaut, back into space. Glenn, an original Mercury 7 astronaut and the first American to orbit ...

Blue Origin is poised to launch the highly anticipated debut mission of its New Glenn rocket early Monday, Jan. 13.

When the Mercury Seven astronauts were chosen, Americans began the proud and courageous path to space. During the Mercury and Gemini pr there were no accidents. Although, Virgil Gus Grissom nearly ...

On Jan. 14, two Tech students were officially recognized as part of the 2024 class of Astronaut Scholars by the Astronaut ...

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Though 2025 won't mark the return of astronauts into deep space as NASA had hoped, launchpads still will be scorching-hot from a procession of robotic spacecraft attempting to land on the moon . How ...

AP Photo/NASA TV) NASA's stuck astronaut steps out on a spacewalk after 7 months in orbit Read full ... Space Agency shows close-up photos of Mercury's north pole taken by the European-Japanese ...