It took feats of engineering and deft piloting to map the planet’s topography, an achievement that continues to pay dividends ...

This is the second installment of a two-part series about the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. Read part one here. Elevation ...

The Soyuz MS-26 crewed mission is set to fly NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan ...

This week NASA is working on the problem of when ... After completing its mission, the shuttle would reenter the atmosphere, protected from the heat by special tiles on its lower surface, and ...

Former NASA astronaut Cady Coleman, who led two missions to the International Space Station, has encouraged Irish students to ...

I don't think that's terribly surprising given the experience of the Columbia shuttle disaster in ... associate administrator for NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate.

Taking a ‘giant leap’ for commercial spaceflight, the crew of the Polaris Dawn mission conducted the world’s first private ...

Between 1997 and 2009, several flyers launched to space on one member of NASA’s shuttle fleet and returned on another. But missions lengthened by unforeseen factors are rarer. A notable ...

NASA has removed two astronauts from a forthcoming SpaceX mission to make room for two others needing a new ride home from space. The SpaceX Crew-9 mission will now fly only NASA astronaut and U.S ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit is launching to the International Space Station for his fourth trip to space, and he and two ...

We are executing the mission as determined by NASA, and we are preparing the spacecraft for a safe and successful uncrewed return." In the wake of the space shuttle's retirement, NASA awarded two ...

All space missions come to an end ... ray Observatory sits inside the cargo bay of the space shuttle Columbia before launch. Credit: NASA The current budget shortfall is not the first threat ...