NASA confirmed in a report that Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano almost died during a spacewalk outside the International ...
The Space Mirror Memorial is engraved with the names of the crews of three space missions along with astronaut candidates who died in accidents. On Jan. 27, 1967, Virgil “Gus” Grissom ...
“Black in Space: Breaking the Color Barrier,” a documentary on the Smithsonian Channel on Black astronauts, touched on some of the discrimination McNair faced growing up. His brother told NPR ...
CAPE KENNEDY -- America's first three Apollo astronauts died only 218 feet off the ground Friday night in a blazing explosion inside their space capsule atop its launch pad. An electrical spark ...
Apollo 11 Mission “odd-man-out” Michael Collins died Wednesday of cancer at the age of 90, his family announced. When fellow astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin landed on the ...
As Elon Musk helps the Trump administration eliminate DEI, his SpaceX currently has a NASA contract to help land the first ...
On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded after it was launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida in just 73 seconds which claimed the lives of seven astronauts.
NEEDHAM, Mass. — Massachusetts native and astronaut Suni Williams said she's "trying to remember what it's like to walk" after being stuck in space for almost seven months. Williams on Monday ...
White lines mark problems encountered and astronauts who died on space missions, and white circles indicate astronauts who were in space at press time (December 2024).