Apollo astronaut Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II, known for helping the crew of Apollo 13 safely return to Earth after an explosion doomed their lunar mission, has died at the age of 87, NASA announced.

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European Space Agency astronaut John McFall tests his prosthesis fit in simulated microgravity. ESA / DLR, ESA Standard Licence John McFall, a former Paralympian for Great Britain, has just become the ...

"I was right in the middle of emptying the contents of my stomach onto the steppes of Kazakhstan," Pettit recalled Bill Ingalls/NASA via Getty Astronaut Don Pettit is opening up about his return to ...