NASA's Space Shuttle programme officially ended in 2011, after 30 years of service. The final mission, STS-135, was flown by ...

The last Dragon spacecraft that SpaceX plans to build entered orbit for the first time with "grace." Reaching space on the ...

A Pennsylvania native will be part of a four-person crew flying on the next SpaceX Dragon launch. NASA says Allegheny County native and veteran astronaut Mike Fincke will make his ...

Virts is filing as a Democrat, joining a field of early challengers all vying for the seat. While Virts' campaign video ...

Former Johnson Director Jefferson Howell July 3, 2025Jefferson Davis Howell, Jr., former director of NASA's Johnson Space ...

Current International Space Station, a collaborative effort by 14 countries, is due to be decommissioned by 2030. The first ...

After a part was replaced, the shuttle was ready for launch on June 5th. Endeavour's 14-day STS-111 mission delivered supplies to the ISS, as well as rotating the astronaut crew aboard the space ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit, an energetic tinkerer and photographer, used his off-duty time on the International Space Station ...

He flew to space twice more, in 1996 and 2000, on the shuttle Endeavour. (Challenger had exploded in 1986, killing all seven crew members on board.) ...

Endeavour's crew of six Americans and one Canadian is scheduled to install a platform on the ISS for astronauts to conduct experiments in the vacuum of space, 350km above Earth's surface.