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 ongoing ...

On Sept. 12, 1992, NASA astronaut Mae Jemison became the first African-American woman to go to space. In NASA's early days, ...

Astronauts have begun training for the STS-108/Utilization Flight-1 mission to rotate International Space Station crews and to deliver experiments and scientific racks for the station’s U.S.

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

A group of gold commemorative Sacagawea coins, seven of which traveled into orbit aboard a NASA space shuttle, recently sold for more than $3 million.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is changing the way its employees engage with and remember one of its most severe tragedies. Following the 2003 disaster of the Columbia space ...

Happy Birthday Tracy!!!! And in honor of your birthday today, as you begin your 91st orbit in space, the ISS will begin its 50,000th orbit (since FEL). This corresponds to ISS traveling about 2.1 ...

The 79th annual East LA Mexican Independence Day Parade and Festival was held under the theme of "Tradition, Education and ...

Truly tested landing the space shuttle and then launched as the pilot on STS-2 and commander on STS-8. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

On Sept. 14, SpaceX launched a Cygnus spacecraft full of supplies and science for NASA astronauts onboard the International ...