Soviet Union’s cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to travel to space. Lasting there for just 108 ...

A proposed mission seeks to retrieve Vanguard-1 and display it as an ancient relic of the space age.

NASA's Apollo 13 mission, where disaster struck and an oxygen tank exploded, we take a look at some of the most harrowing space-related accidents ...

His latest is Into the Black: The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia and ... crew would not be in danger during reentry? Was Kranz’ experience with ...

Fifty-one years ago this month, NASA’s Apollo 13 mission would have been the agency’s third Moon landing and lunar exploration mission. A movie and several books relate the story of this challenging ...

Following Blue Origin’s historical all-female spaceflight, social media users started questioning the legitimacy of the ...

IDTechEx engineers know that re-entering a planet's atmosphere is one of the toughest obstacles spacecraft face. During a ...

Whether they are executing a precision rendezvous and docking maneuver with the Mir space station or greasing another shuttle landing ... control his spacecraft's reentry into Earth's atmosphere?

1944: The first Jews transported from Athens arrive at Auschwitz. On the same day, General Dwight D Eisenhower becomes the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force. 1945: US 7th Army & ...

And that was all more or less settled until last week when the two US senators from Texas, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, filed ...

Two Texas senators have introduced legislation that would strip the Smithsonian of the retired space shuttle Discovery and send it to Houston for display. NASA's retired space shuttle Discovery ...