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"I didn't look too good because I didn't feel too good," Pettit told reporters during a press conference from NASA's Johnson ...
John Grunsfeld has a model of the Hubble Space Telescope on his bookshelf. It's right next to a model of a NASA space shuttle ...
Space is a lot gayer these days, because a piece of LGBTQIA+ art has officially landed on the moon. Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, was also the first known LGBTQIA+ astronaut. Ride ...
There are no showtimes for this date. The Dream Is Alive gives the viewer an unprecedented window on board the space shuttle. Shot by 14 NASA astronauts on three shuttle missions in 1984, the film ...
Bruce McCandless II. Photo: NASA NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II stepped away from the Space Shuttle Challenger on Feb. 7, 1984, using a jet-powered backpack called the Manned Manoeuvring Unit ...
Mercury astronaut John Glenn was 77 when he returned to orbit on a short shuttle flight in 1998. But he’d been gone from NASA ...
Dr. James Newman, a former NASA astronaut, reflects on his career and the future of space travel during a visit to the Naval ...
The new documentary, SALLY reveals Sally Ride's 27-year partnership with Tam O’Shaughnessy — who tells the full story of the ...
Longtime NASA astronaut Don Pettit, who has ventured to space four times, returned to Earth on Saturday night from the International Space Station. Pettit, who turned 70 on Sunday, landed at 9:20 ...
with the veteran astronaut logging a total of 590 days in orbit so far. Pettit launched on board the Space Shuttle Endeavour on November 23, 2002 for his first mission on board the ISS.