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A new book explores the experiences of all 61 U.S. women astronauts Valerie Neal NASA astronaut and Expedition 64 Flight Engineer Kate Rubins sequences DNA aboard the International Space Station for ...

Rare Smithsonian artifacts are on display at museums across the country. Mark Strauss This SR-10F Reliant, one of only 18 of this model, participated in airmail pick-up experiments for All American ...

"Soyuz and Apollo are shaking hands now!" Fifty years ago today (July 17), at 12:09 p.m. EDT (1609 GMT), history was made as two crewed spacecraft launched by two countries docked together in orbit ...

FOR THE NEW SHEPARD PROGRAM. THE SANDS SPACE HISTORY CENTER HAS REOPENED TO THE PUBLIC. THAT’S JUST OUTSIDE THE SPACE FORCE STATION GATES ON CAPE CANAVERAL. AND VISITORS ARE TELLING WESH TWO IT’S A ...

Black-and-white photographs shared by some social media users are said to show Laika, a 13-pound stray from Moscow who became the first dog in space after being launched into low orbit aboard Sputnik ...

A NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) spacecraft made history on Thursday (Dec 16) by surviving the closest-ever approach to the sun. Parker Solar Probe gave a signal to scientists ...

The Space Foundation's 40th Space Symposium got underway with space history lighting up the night sky over Colorado Springs. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Space junk surrounds us. The European Space Agency estimates that there are approximately 130 million pieces of space junk from the over 6,800 successful rocket launches that have occurred since 1957.

The story of Laika, the first dog in space, feels like the beginning of an inspirational biopic. She began as a stray in Moscow and was lovingly given the name Kudryavka(Russian for "little curly one" ...