A new book and documentary from James Bluemel tells the story of the space race so far in photographs, a mix of images from ...

Eileen Collins reflects on her time as the first female not only to pilot but also command a spacecraft. Here's her ...

Find out how NASA’s astronaut selection process has evolved. Diane Tedeschi Marsha Ivins (at Florida's Kennedy Space Center in 1995) flew on five space shuttle missions, logging more than 1,300 hours ...

In 1978 Nasa announced 35 new astronauts for a new era of spaceflight – and six of them were women. Here's how the Space Shuttle programme chipped away at one of Nasa's blind spots.

Columbia mission commander Rick Husband is most often spoken of in the context of his death alongside his fellow astronauts in 2003. However, he is remembered by his hometown of Amarillo as a ...

Texas lawmakers want to move the Smithsonian’s retired space shuttle to Houston. It’s “a vanity project that is apt to ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - In 50 years, Hōkūleʻa has sailed 275,000 miles around the world. The crew also made connections in space. It was Oct. 28, 1992, as part of No Na Mamo, For the Children: 1992 ...

On Episode 180 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss the headlines, from the shutdown of NASA, to the risky ...