European Space Agency Adds 5 New Astronauts in Only Fourth Class since 1978. Over 20,000 Applied For the past year, five fit, academically superior men and women have been spun in centrifuges, submerged for hours, deprived...
NASA Is Seeking a Faster, Cheaper Way to Bring Mars Samples to Earth Retrieving Mars soil and rocks has been on NASA’s to-do list for decades, but the date kept moving forward, as costs...
A Total Solar Eclipse Races Across North America as Clouds Part Along Totality Eclipse mania gripped all of Mexico, the U.S. and Canada, as the moon swept in front of the sun, blotting out daylight...
First Woman to Pilot a Space Shuttle Explains How She Got There Eileen Collins was the first woman to pilot a space shuttle, flying the shuttle Discovery with a crew that included Russian...
Astronaut Thomas Stafford, Commander of Apollo 10 and Air Force General, Has Died at Age 93 Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford, who commanded a dress rehearsal flight for the 1969 moon landing and the first U.S.-Soviet...
4 New Astronauts Head to the International Space Station for a 6-Month Stay SpaceX’s Falcon rocket blasted off from Kennedy Space Center, carrying NASA’s Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette...
Private US Moon Lander Still Working After Breaking Leg and Falling, But Not for Long The first private U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon broke a leg at touchdown before falling over, according to company...
Russian Space Officials Say Air Leak at International Space Station Poses No Danger to Its Crew Roscosmos' statement followed comments by Joel Montalbano, NASA's station project manager, who noted Wednesday that the leak...
Sideways Moon Landing Cuts Mission Short, Private US Lunar Lander Will Stop Working Tuesday Intuitive Machines, the Houston company that built and flew the spacecraft, said Monday it will continue to collect data...
Private Lander Touches Down on the Moon but Sending Weak Signal Despite the spotty communication, Intuitive Machines, the company that built and managed the craft, confirmed that it had...
USS George Washington Heads to Japan, Ending Troubled Shipyard Stay That Included String of Suicides The aircraft carrier USS George Washington is finally underway to its new homeport in Japan, following six arduous years in a...
New Marine One Helicopters Aren't Allowed to Carry the President Because They Could Scorch the Lawn The VH-92's lawn-scorching problems were first discovered in 2018 during the Trump administration.
Navy Investigating More Than 100 'Secretly Shot' Sexual Videos of US Troops Uploaded to Adult Website The documents say the Naval Criminal Investigative Service became aware of the videos, some of which contained names and...
The Army Has Officially Deployed Laser Weapons Overseas to Combat Enemy Drones A pair of laser weapons has been deployed by the Army to an undisclosed location overseas to blast incoming enemy drones out...
VA Opens Door for More Vets with Other Than Honorable Discharges to Receive Health Care and Benefits Under the new regulation, the VA plans to remove a bar against benefits for those dismissed for homosexual acts, as well as...