Two Texas senators have introduced legislation that would strip the Smithsonian of the retired space shuttle Discovery and ...

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Their presence in space and safe return caught global attention as the short mission was turned into a months-long ordeal. NASA astronaut Sunita Williams shows her thumb as she safely returned to ...

The whole point of the mission was to test the spacecraft, which was tipped to be a critical alternative to Space X's Crew Dragon spacecraft, which is currently the only shuttle for US ...

Despite technical setbacks, they have been actively contributing to space research. Their return to Earth is facilitated by a SpaceX Dragon capsule, part of the Crew-10 mission launching new ISS ...

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams finally returned to Earth after spending a total of 286 days in space MIGUEL J. RODRIGUEZ CARRILLO/AFP via Getty It was a momentous homecoming for ...

The first Space Force officer to be launched into space came back to Earth on Tuesday evening after six months aboard the International Space Station, returning alongside two astronauts who had ...

NASA astronauts Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore boarded the International Space Station (ISS) on June 5, 2024, after flying into space on the Boeing Starliner. After what ...

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NASA hired SpaceX and Boeing after the shuttle program ended, in order to have two competing U.S. companies for transporting astronauts to and from the space station until it's abandoned in 2030 ...

The astronauts were then flown to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to be reunited with their families. Sunita Lyn “Suni” Williams, 59, and Barry Eugene “Butch” Wilmore, 62 ...