On Feb. 8, 2010, space shuttle Endeavour began its 24th trip into space, on the 20A assembly mission to the International ...

Dr. Harris’ passion for space was ignited at the age of 13 when he watched the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969. Determined to ...

NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless became the first person to go on a spacewalk without a tether. McCandless was wearing a type ...

The first shuttle mission of 1995, STS-63 included several historic firsts. As part of Phase 1 of the International Space ...

The 'scariest photo ever taken in space' has an incredible story behind it, as it captured an astronaut completely cut off from everything else.

she launched and returned to Earth on the U.S. space shuttle, was named the station's first science officer and was one of only 16 NASA astronauts to perform a spacewalk wearing a Russian Orlan ...

The STS-63 mission, more popularly dubbed as the near-Mir mission, was a successful mission that spanned from February 3-11, ...

The Russian cosmonauts onboard the space station conducted a spacewalk in December ... spacesuits being used by NASA date back from the shuttle program, which began in 1983.

Williams, who was on her ninth spacewalk, now ranks fourth worldwide for longest accumulative spacewalking time.