CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The four astronauts for the final space shuttle mission, STS-135, will answer reporters’ questions at 8:30 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, May 31, as shuttle Atlantis is moved to ...

HOUSTON — NASA announced the winners of its “Original Song Contest” after six weeks of public voting. The songs will awaken the STS-134 astronauts aboard space shuttle Endeavour during their ...

In 1978 Nasa announced 35 new astronauts for a new era of spaceflight – and six of them were women. Here's how the Space ...

McArthur launched on two spaceflights, logging 213 days in orbit across her nearly 25 years, and held leadership positions at ...

NASA's final Space Shuttle launch is just around the corner, and the STS-135 astronauts are getting ready to make history. Plus: Find out how to follow the final Space Shuttle launch.

On July 23, 1999, the space shuttle Columbia launched into orbit to deploy the Chandra X-ray Observatory. This space telescope can detect X-ray radiation emitted by things in the universe that are ...

While NASA is currently targetingJuly 1 to launch Discovery's STS-121 mission, the orbiter has a flightwindow that extends through July 19.

While NASA's Discovery astronauts prepare for the agency's first shuttle flight in more than two years, another orbiter crew is also training hard for its own launch - now less than three months away.

Sally Ride became the first female U.S. astronaut during the STS-7 mission in 1983. NASA The first of these photos show Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, on board the space shuttle ...

NASA's Crew-9 looks different from the original plan. Now only an astronaut and a cosmonaut will launch onboard the SpaceX ...

STS-93 also marked the first NASA human spaceflight mission to be commanded by a woman; Air Force Colonel Eileen Collins was the first woman to fly in the right seat on the orbiter flight deck as ...

Firefly Space Transport Services (STS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Firefly Aerospace, Inc, announced today that the company has been selected by the ...