After just over seven months in space, NASA’s oldest serving astronaut, Don Pettit, is returning to Earth. Pettit will travel home alongside Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner ...

Photographer extraordinaire Don Pettit is about to return to Earth following a seven-month stay aboard the space station. Take a moment to enjoy his best work.

“Going to a theater, with that large of a screen, really makes you feel like you’re part of it, and I think that’s what was ...

Here's what it's like to spend months in space. Ask any astronaut who has spent extended periods in the International Space Station what the most challenging part was, and they will probably say ...

Blue Origin Back in 2004, the FAA launched its Commercial Space Astronaut Wings program, formally recognizing anyone who has flown into outers space as an astronaut, a title typically reserved for ...

an astronaut who, for many, became as recognizable as the song itself. At just 24 years old, the man behind the space suit never anticipated the wild ride that would follow. What began as a simple ...

But astronaut ice cream came with the ultimate ... but was scratched from the space program soon after. The astronauts, it seems, didn’t like the stuff. The good news is that, as the Smithsonian ...

Named after astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American in space, the New Shepard is composed of both a rocket and a crew capsule and is designed to be fully reusable. The New Shepard's crew ...

It is named after astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American in space. During each launch, the rocket reaches initial speeds exceeding 2,000 mph – much faster than the speed of sound ...