Since human space exploration began over 60 years ago, 20 people have died – 14 in the NASA space shuttle tragedies of 1986 and 2003, three cosmonauts during the 1971 Soyuz 11 mission, and three ...

It was about one in the morning, four hours after an explosion tore through the Apollo 13 spacecraft on its way to the moon, ...

Neil Armstrong and his ex-wife Janet Shearon Armstrong shared three children: Mark, Rick and Karen. Here’s everything to know ...

Things would be different if an astronaut died during the 300 million-mile trip to Mars. In that scenario, the crew probably wouldn’t be able to turn around and go back. Instead, the body would ...