Here’s a look at human spaceflight programs in the United States and around the world. Facts The United States ended its crewed space shuttle program with the launch of Atlantis on July 8, 2011, and ...

The First Five Years" commemorates NASA's achievements from its inception in 1958 to its fifth anniversary in 1963. It highlights significant milestones such as the launch of Explorer 1, the success ...

A four-person crew will spend three to five days aboard a SpaceX capsule orbiting above the poles of Earth — a flight path ...

Space is the most important thing to happen in at least half a millennia,' said UCF's space czar as he was nominated to be ...

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are back on Earth. Finally. The madness of March Madness has tipped off!

Gayle King will step out of her comfort zone and into a space suit alongside Katy Perry, Lauren Sánchez, Aisha Bowe, Amanda ...

NASA’s two stuck astronauts headed back to Earth with SpaceX on Tuesday to close out a dramatic marathon mission that began ...

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

The first woman in space was the Soviet Union’s Valentina Tereshkova in 1963. Sally Ride became the first American woman in space in 1983. Of those four, only Tereshkova is still alive.

Along with a NASA rocket scientist, a bioastronautics research scientist and a film producer, Katy Perry will "shoot across ...