Their first flights were aboard NASA's space shuttle, followed by Russia's Soyuz capsule ... fly again — with astronauts or just cargo. NASA went into its commercial crew program wanting ...

HOUSTON—Russia's Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft with NASA astronaut Don Pettit and cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner departed the International Space Station (ISS) for a parachute-assisted landing ...

As they exited the spacecraft, however, the crew was all smiles and looking ... the nation would lose its ability to fly astronauts. When the space shuttle program ended in 2011, for example ...

Veteran NASA astronaut Don Pettit celebrated his 70th birthday as he returned to Earth from a seven-month stay at the ...

“Crew-9 going ... 9 rocket or Dragon spacecraft that forces them to stand down, the country would lose its ability to get astronauts to space. When the space shuttle retired in 2011, for example ...

Why were the astronauts stuck in space so long? Three years after the space shuttle's retirement ... and whether the spacecraft could be trusted to safely bring its crew back to Earth.

WASHINGTON, March 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- After completing a long-duration stay aboard the International Space Station, NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 astronauts ... a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft shortly ...

Wilmore and Williams flew to the International Space Station (ISS) in June 2023 in the first crewed flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft ... up Crew-9 in September with two fewer astronauts ...

Backbone of Russian space program — 3 spaceflyers arrive at the ISS aboard Russian Soyuz spacecraft — Former Navy Seal Jonny Kim will be 1st Korean-American astronaut on ISS — International ...

March 28 (UPI) --NASA on Friday announced the four crew ... and Space Transportation System 134 in 2011, which was the final flight of space shuttle Endeavour. Fincke, who became an astronaut ...

Video footage has captured the moment a SpaceX capsule ... shuttle program in 2011. In 2020, NASA joined forces with Boeing and Space X for the Commercial Crew Program and started sending ...