We talked to retired astronaut Joan Higginbotham, the third Black woman to ever go into space, about her inspiring journey.

A Dartmouth project aboard the Polaris Dawn mission aims to address two major health risks of space flight—the loss of bone ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit is launching to the International Space Station for his fourth trip to space, and he and two ...

Over the decades, it has become a common practice for crew to return to Earth in a different spacecraft than the one that took them to space.

In 1998, my colleagues and I watched from the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center as one of our experiments ...

Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were supposed to be on the International Space Station for eight days. They've now been there ...

That mission was the last before STS-107 of Space Shuttle Columbia, which was destroyed on its flight home in January 2003. The grounding of the shuttle fleet after the disaster meant Pettit was ...

after the shuttle fleet was grounded in the wake of the space shuttle Columbia disaster that took place on Feb. 1, 2003, killing seven astronauts. Pettit's arrival on Earth aboard the Soyuz TMA-1 ...

The Columbia disaster occurred on Feb. 1, 2003, when the space shuttle Columbia broke apart during atmospheric reentry. That was determined to be caused by a large piece of foam falling from the ...

Indian born astronaut Kalpana Chawla died along with 7 other crew members when her space shuttle Columbia exploded on return to earth twenty years back. Indian born Sunita Williams and colleague ...

The crew planned to return home in mid-March aboard the space shuttle Atlantis. Days earlier, they made a ship-to-ship call with shuttle Columbia, flying the STS-107 microgravity research mission.