Alan Shepard became the first American to fly in space on May 5, 1961. Although NASA engineers had put considerable planning into his mission, dubbed Freedom 7, noticeably missing from this extensive ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — Space Shuttle Discovery, the most space-flown orbiter in NASA’s fleet, may soon be embarking on a new mission. Not to space, but from its long-time home at the Smithsonian’s ...

Philip Corneille, founder of Moon Watch Universe, explains what happened to the Omega Speedmaster chronographs NASA used ✓ ...

Colonel Andrew R. Morgan, senior commander of White Sands Missile Range, will speak about leadership at the New Mexico Space ...

As the nation waits for NASA’s Artemis II lunar mission to lift off, the newest exhibit at Orlando Museum of Art takes inspiration from the history of space exploration. Artemis II, with April 1 set ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Suciu covers trends in the world of aerospace and defense. The Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103) would need to be cut into ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tucked inside a trio of cabinets at the Gardner House Cafe Bed and Breakfast, a small museum is quietly preserving a piece of ...

NASA on Tuesday said it will assign three space orbiters and a similar-looking glider from the shuttle program to sites on the East and West coasts, leaving out the National Museum of the U.S. Air ...

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 ...

Imagine an enormous telescope with a sun shield the size of a tennis court that sends back proof of a lemon-shaped exoplanet raining diamonds. Then, picture a flying object that can hurtle toward the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Tucked inside a trio of cabinets at the Gardner House Cafe Bed and Breakfast, a small museum is quietly preserving a piece of American space history. The JPL Museum in Stayton may be ...