Here’s a look at the 21st-century race to send humans into space ... considered to be safer and more reliable than NASA’s space shuttle—a revolutionary vehicle for its time, but one that ...

The crew will observe Earth's polar regions 430 kilometers above the surface, allowing the Crew Dragon Resilience to travel ...

Just about everyone has heard of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope — not too surprising considering that it has been with us for ...

On Christmas Eve, an autonomous spacecraft flew past the Sun, closer than any human-made object ... flown to the International Space Station on the space shuttle Discovery in 2011, where it ...

But NASA never sent humans ... to Mars and next president comes in and cancels that. The agency is unable to sustain consistent funding to do anything." It wasn't until the Space Shuttle Program ...

Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour. An earlier shuttle, Enterprise, was used for early testing and then disassembled. Icons of space flight they undoubtedly are, but the shuttle programme has been ...

To explore and work in space, human beings must take their environment ... back to the top- Spacesuits for the space shuttle era are pressurized at 4.3 pounds per square inch (psi), but because ...

When a new tile is needed, it is fabricated and installed at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center ... and the emittance wash on the next shuttle mission: a Discovery flight, now scheduled for May.

Even if you were ready to plunk down nearly $30 million, chances are your garage can't fit a space shuttle next to the lawn ... By the end of the year, Discovery and Endeavour will follow.

This year’s theme is “More than Just Astronomy Missions," and promises interesting panels on the lesser known history of the Space Shuttle. When is the next Florida launch? Don't miss last ...

Saturn is below Venus and very low in the predawn sky. In late April it is five degrees above the horizon. You may need ...