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 ...
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 ...
Just about everyone has heard of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope — not too surprising considering that it has been with us for ...
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 ...
Minnesota teen’s space experiment flew aboard Columbia in 1982, revealing how bugs react to weightlessness during shuttle ...
While other astronauts had longer spaceflights over the decades, none had to deal with so much uncertainty or see the length ...
NASA has shared an update to the investigation of Boeing’s shuttle issues now that the stranded astronauts have returned to ...
Four astronauts from NASA, JAXA, and Roscosmos are teaming up for an ambitious mission aboard the International Space Station ...