It has been 54 years since NASA landed astronauts on the Moon for the third time. On February 5, 1971, astronauts Alan ...

National Math and Science Initiative proudly celebrates the 30th anniversary of former CEO Dr. Bernard A. Harris Jr.'s ...

The success of SpaceX and other private-sector space firms is throwing up hard questions about America's "great national ...

In the early morning hours on an otherwise ordinary Thursday last September, at nearly 460 miles above Earth, Jared Isaacman ...

Knowing where to look gives astronauts the best chance at successfully living on the moon, something that has, heretofore, ...

If the command module for Apollo 2 is substituted for the burned ... White, also an Air Force lieutenant colonel, took the first U.S. spacewalk on the Gemini 4 flight June 3, 1965.

September saw cheerier news as the first private spacewalk in history was completed ... as many as the Saturn V flew during the entire Apollo and Skylab programs. There will be more American ...

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 ...

Rumors of a Russian space nuke, along with other satellite-targeting weapons, have made geopolitical tensions extend into ...

July 20, 1969, was without a doubt a monumental moment in human history–the landing of the first human beings on the surface of the Moon. In 1972, the final mission of NASA's Apollo program touched ...