Space travel should by rights make for rocket-fuelled television, but documentaries on the subject too often veer into ...

Melroy stressed that her primary focus in command was on the team not the technology. “As a commander I needed to know about ...

Eileen Collins reflects on her time as the first female not only to pilot but also command a spacecraft. Here's her ...

Lisa Nowak, a decorated U.S. Navy officer and NASA astronaut who flew on the STS-121 shuttle mission in July 2006, shocked ...

For a quarter of a century, humans have continuously occupied the International Space Station. Here's a look at how far we've ...

US astronaut, doctor and engineer Mae Jemison became the first Black woman to go into space in 1992. She was one of seven ...

MIT astronauts aboard the International Space Station—and the MIT researchers who have sent up experiments—have advanced our ...

Col. Eileen Collins was the first woman to pilot and command a NASA space shuttle. Collins commanded the first flight after the 2003 Columbia tragedy, which also experienced a foam-shedding issue.

NASA has furloughed more than 15,000 employees, 83% of its federal workforce, as a result of the government shutdown. A plan sent to the Office of Management and Budget details NASA’s shutdown ...

More than 15,000 NASA civil servants have been furloughed as the U.S. federal government enters a shutdown. The grinding halt forces NASA and other agencies to scale back nearly all of their ...

US former NASA astronaut Joan Higginbotham, 60, who waited for nearly 20 years ahead of her 2006 space mission, says space tourists may be able to weekend in orbit in just five years' time.

Of more than 18,000 workers employed at NASA, about 82.8% of them would be sent home without pay – or furloughed – during a government shutdown. Even if the government were to shut down, NASA's ...