"I guess that was our 15 minutes of fame," said Smylie in a 1999 interview with a NASA historian. "If you read the book and look at the movie ["Apollo 13"], it sounds like I did all of that.

Though it has been scouring the Martian surface for more than a decade, NASA's Curiosity rover has never been imaged from above within the planet's atmosphere – until now. Far from being camera shy, ...

A U.S. F/A-18 Super Hornet approaches a KC-135 Stratotanker over the greater Middle East in March. Photo: Jackson Manske/DVIDS ...

During the Apollo 17 Mission's first extravehicular activity (EVA ... and Space Subcommittee of the United States Senate Committee on Commerce. NASA (The National Aeronautics and Space Administration) ...

The iconic Earthrise image of our planet rising above the lunar horizon, taken in 1968 by astronauts aboard the Apollo 8 mission, is widely credited with fueling the environmental movement that ...

NASA is celebrating the 53rd anniversary of the Apollo 16 mission which touched down on the Moon on April 21. Besides being NASA's fifth Moon landing mission, it was historic for having the youngest ...

At the end of March, the Indian Air Force (IAF) signed a contract with U.S.-based company Metrea to provide support for pilot training using its commercial KC-135 tanker aircraft. The deal includes ...

Retired NASA physicist F. Don Cooper will be the featured speaker for Galveston College’s 2024-2025 “Building a Better World” Lecture Series at 6 p.m. on April 30.

NASA has been swept with a new wave of layoffs and cost-cutting efforts in compliance with directives from the White House and the Department of Government Efficiency. The layoffs, known as the ...

Apollo 8's successful mission paved the way for Apollo 11 to fulfill U.S. President John F. Kennedy's goal of landing a man on the Moon before the end of the decade. NASA (The National Aeronautics and ...

The Boeing KC-135, nicknamed Stratotanker is an aerial refueling aircraft that has been in continuous service with the USAF for over 60 years with over 800 examples of the C-135 series built.