Returning to Earth is one of the most dangerous phases of spaceflight, and the Space Shuttle was built to endure it like no other vehicle before. As it re-entered the atmosphere at Mach 25, the ...

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.

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

Forgetting can happen for many reasons. People leave. Physical archives are vulnerable to mould and fire and being misplaced. Digital archives tend to become unreadable as technology changes — indeed ...

Exploration has never been a safe occupation. For every significant discovery, there has been sacrifice by those seeking out ...

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 ...

After Blue Origin's latest New Shepard launch that featured an all-women celebrity crew, many are wondering, are they now ...

As it flew up toward the International Space Station last summer, the Starliner spacecraft lost four thrusters. A NASA ...

A former astronaut, Bowersox saw his own space station mission abruptly prolonged. He was up there with Don Pettit, who’s currently aboard the orbiting lab, when shuttle Columbia broke apart during ...

Strachan slipped the surly bonds of earth in July 2023 at age 76. His passing was due to health issues related to the day in 1976 when, as a Kitsap County deputy, he was accidentally shot and left ...