Former NASA boss Jim Bridenstine has warned that the space agency's plan to land astronauts on the Moon risks becoming too ...

A Santa Monica native and retired Marine colonel will take the helm of one of the most ambitious American space missions since the Apollo era. NASA announced Tuesday that Randy Bresnik has been named ...

The International Space Station may have to be evacuated amid an air leak on the Russian part of the orbital labatory. NASA has ordered its personnel to prepare for evacuation. Article continues below ...

When the first Apollo mission to carry astronauts to orbit launched on October 11, 1968, everyone at NASA sighed in relief. Apollo 7 rose on a pillar of flame from Kennedy Space Center’s Pad 34 on ...

Astroscale’s Provisioner refueling vehicle was tested last year at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The purple piece is the OrbitFab GRIP interface. Credit: Astroscale U.S. WASHINGTON — As it plans ...

Sixty years ago, a fleet of sleek little spaceships paved the way for America to land a man on the Moon. Project Gemini was a series of two-man, Earth-orbital missions that pioneered rendezvous, ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force is preparing a series of experiments to test in-space satellite refueling technologies, positioning commercial competitors at the forefront of an emerging sector of ...

It is 50 years since the very last Saturn rocket rolled out from NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to launchpad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center. The super heavy rockets were built and used for ...

Today is the 102 nd birthday of Apollo 7 astronaut Wally Schirra, who won an Emmy award for filming a TV show in space while suffering from a bad cold. Apollo 7 astronauts (left to right) Donn Eisele ...

The Apollo spacecraft is a complex transportation system designed for lunar missions, standing 363 feet tall and weighing over 6 million pounds at launch. It consists of three main components: the ...

The Lunar Module (LM) lifts off from the lunar surface to dock with the Command and Service Module (CSM). It was a three-day journey home. After atmospheric re-entry and water landing, the astronauts ...