America’s first astronauts of the1960’s “Project Mercury”, envisioned a place where former astronauts could be honored. In ...

was chosen as the first African-American astronaut trainee, it sparked so much controversy he was ‘reassigned.’ It wasn’t until 1983 that Guion ‘Guy’ Bluford became the first African ...

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The street, 2000 N. 59th Street, is near Overbrook High School, Smith’s alma mater. Hall of Fame basketball player Wilt Chamberlain, astronaut Guion Bluford, artist Bailey Hendricks and actor Colman ...

China's Shenzhou-20 mission, led by veteran astronaut Chen Dong, is set to launch on Thursday, marking another step in their lunar ambitions. Chen, along with astronauts Chen Zhongrui and Wang Jie ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit is carried to a medical tent shortly after he and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner landed in their Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft near the town of Zhezkazgan ...

But Nasa’s oldest serving astronaut Don Pettit became a septuagenarian while hurtling towards the Earth in a spacecraft to wrap up a seven-month mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

"The last FAA guidelines under the Commercial Space Astronaut Wings Program were clear: Crewmembers who travel into space must have 'demonstrated activities during flight that were essential to ...

"Knock on wood, it can go another 10 years," former astronaut John Grunsfeld says. John Grunsfeld has a model of the Hubble Space Telescope on his bookshelf. It's right next to a model of a NASA ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronaut Jonny Kim safely arrived on a Russian spacecraft at the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday, hours after taking off from ...