The new podcast 16 Sunsets opens with archive audio from Nasa’s mission control in 1981, in the build-up to the first flight ...

China announces the development of Haolong, a reusable uncrewed space shuttle, designed for cargo transport to Tiangong ...

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Orbital, which features six astronauts on a space station, is about perception, about the idea of ‘big’ and ‘small’, ‘reality’ and ‘illusion’ and about taking a hard ...

On Nov. 11, 1921, U.S. President Warren Harding dedicated the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia ...

This claim was, in fact, true. McCandless was, indeed, the first astronaut to perform an untethered spacewalk on Feb. 7, 1984 ...

In 2003, 7 US astronauts lost their lives when the Space Shuttle Columbia broke up upon re-entry 16 minutes from home.

NASA engineers spot a piece of debris striking the shuttle during launch. In space, the crew continue their mission unaware ...

The Chandra X-ray Observatory was launched on July 23, 1999 aboard Space Shuttle Columbia. See 25 'never-before-seen' images ...

on Space Shuttle Columbia as well as one other shuttle mission, STS-9, also on Columbia. He was born Sept. 24, 1930 and died Jan. 6, 2018. (file photos) That’s similar to the record set by NASA ...

The crew of the ill-fated space shuttle Columbia: (top row) Dave Brown, Willie McCool, Mike Anderson (bottom row) Kalpana ...

on Space Shuttle Columbia as well as one other shuttle mission, STS-9, also on Columbia.Born Sept. 24, 1930 | Died Jan. 6, 2018 That’s similar to the record set by NASA’s John Young, who flew in four ...