"As the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle, I worked very hard at that because I didn't want people to say, 'Oh look, the woman has made a mistake'. Because it wasn't just about me, it was about the women to follow me," she says.

On 24 February 1997, Jerry Linenger and his five crewmates faced a danger they hoped they’d never meet: a fire aboard their space station.

Other satellite technologies have also revolutionised daily life. Weather satellites have made forecasts more accurate, while GPS has rendered traditional navigation methods obsolete. These innovations have fundamentally changed history.

Archaeologists have studied how astronauts use the International Space Station to improve its potential future successors.

Explore the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum in Washington, DC, as we delve into mesmerizing space exhibits that reveal NASA's vision beyond our planet. In this video, we dive into captivating displays,

On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test craft smashed into its target, the hazardous asteroid Dimorphos, and raised hopes that a space rock could be deflected from a collision course with Earth.

"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."

The ISS has “come into its own as a very sophisticated scientific laboratory,” says retired NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, who famously spent a year in space aboard the station in 2015 and 2016.

Since 2000, for 24 hours a day, seven days a week, NASA and its partners have sustained a continuous human presence in low-Earth orbit