Larry Bell (left) and Chet Vaughan worked for many years for NASA from the moon landings to the International Space Station. When former astronauts from the Apollo era pass away, it tends to make the news — like it did last month when we learned of the ...

Among the trailblazing women, those who had long aspired to spaceflight learned to fly airplanes in hopes of improving their chance to become an astronaut, and it was not uncommon for them to come to NASA with a pilot’s license in hand.

"To call this mission fully successful, we need to go fly by the moon, bring the crew home safely and welcome them back with open arms."

For most of NASA’s history, space was a man’s domain, a boys’ club in orbit. The first astronauts were all military test pilots, white men trained to push the envelope of flight, not question traditions.

HOUSTON — NASA's ambitious mission to return astronauts to the moon for the first time this century is on track to launch no later than April 2026, but it just might fly sooner if all goes well. "We together have a front-row seat to history: We're ...

Two decades after Concorde was grounded, NASA's X-59 makes history with a quieter approach to supersonic flight.

Iniya Pragati, 13, became India’s youngest analogue astronaut after a Mars-like Arctic mission and NASA selection.