Dr. Mae Jemison continues to inspire the next wave of space travelers while championing science and education on Earth. Selected from among 2,000 applicants to NASA's astronaut training program in ...

Spokane-born astronaut U.S. Army Col. Anne McClain is set to talk with Earth’s schoolchildren Tuesday from the International ...

When NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore left Earth last summer, they were expected to spend about eight days on the International Space ... 260 miles above the Atlantic ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit ... The linear streaks above are stars. This photo shows Earth, our home planet, and was taken from the International Space Station as it flew more than 261 miles up.

SpaceX wrote in a post at splashdown Tuesday, along with video of the capsule floating ... recent space station missions May 20 (UPI) -- Four NASA astronauts who recently returned to Earth from ...

Down to their DNA, astronauts’ bodies can change in weird and sometimes significant ways while high above Earth: They start to elongate, often developing a taller “space height,” and because ...

“Without this exercise, they would be unable to walk or stand up when they return to Earth after months of floating in space,” they wrote. Many astronauts return to Earth with vision problems ...

FLOATING IS VERY COOL. IT'S FUN TO WATCH NEW-- I MEAN, NEW ASTRONAUTS SHOW UP ... Anne McClain: SO, THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION BEING ONLY 250 MILES ABOVE EARTH, WE CALL IT KIND OF THE PROVING ...

Boeing astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams flew to the International Space Station on June 5 ... were 261 statute miles (420 kilometers) above Earth off the coast of Guam in the Pacific ...