Here is how death in space would be handled today: If someone died on a low-Earth-orbit mission – such as aboard the International Space Station – the crew could return the body to Earth in a capsule ...
Known as the Rocket City, Huntsville has long been a focal point of US aerospace and defence. It is home to the Marshall ...
Ahead of splashdown, the rocket’s four main parachutes deployed without issue, allowing those onboard — space explorers Chun ...
For a brief period in the 1980s, astronauts went untethered outside their space capsule, flying with jet packs. The photos ...
A spacecraft traveling at one-tenth of the speed of light could shave the trip down to a quick 40 years. Future engineers could use nuclear power to achieve that, says Scott Bailey, an engineer at ...
An aerospace contractor that builds rockets here in Alabama is gearing up for a historic blastoff later this year. United ...
American astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who were stuck at the International Space Station (ISS) for nine ...
Just about everyone has heard of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope — not too surprising considering that it has been with us for ...
During the first quarter of the year, 27 orbital rockets took flight from Florida's Space Coast. That equates to a cadence of ...
As it flew up toward the International Space Station last summer, the Starliner spacecraft lost four thrusters. A NASA ...
The international all-civilian Fram2 crew is the first in space history to fly to orbit with no licensed pilot or trained ...
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, who were stuck in space for more than nine months, took questions after ...