June 2002: Ask John Charles, STS-107 mission scientist in NASA’s Office of Biological and Physical Research (OBPR), for an early memory of space exploration, and he recalls his disappointment when he ...

News conferences and other media-related events have been set for the launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour on mission STS-113, the 112th launch in the Shuttle program. Mission STS-113 will launch ...

On Sept. 7, 1995, the space shuttle Endeavour launched on mission STS-69. This was the 100th successful crew spaceflight ...

The Cygnus XL cargo ship, named S.S. William C. “Willie” McCool after the pilot of Columbia on STS-107, successfully launched atop a Falcon 9 on the NG-23 mission on Sunday, Sept. 14, at 6:11 PM EDT ...

SpaceX lent a hand to fellow commercial cargo company Northrop Grumman once again with a launch Sunday evening on the Space ...

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

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

Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-112 is now set for Monday, Oct. 7. The preferred time of launch is 3:45:51 p.m. EDT. The preferred launch window extends for about 5 minutes. The planar launch ...

At 4:39 p.m. EDT, NASA astronaut Danny Olivas and ESA astronaut Christer Fuglesang began the third & final spacewalk scheduled during the STS-128 mission. The spacewalk is expected to last 6.5 hours.

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.

José Hernández doesn't view his trip to space and his work as an astronaut as his proudest professional contribution. Rather, it's the work he did to turn a canceled experiment into the first ...