Anita Mitchell, the widow of late NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell, has opened up about her experiences as the wife of an Apollo ...

How do space programs get their names? Elizabeth Coen | Monterey, California NASA and others have long sought symbolic names ...

The first American, Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard, followed on May 5, 1961. The first woman in space was the Soviet Union’s Valentina Tereshkova in 1963. Sally Ride became the first American ...

Earth to astronaut Barbie, we have a new space collectible, but probably not for all of the reasons Mattel intended. The toy ...

Here’s a look at human spaceflight programs in the United States and around the world. Facts The United States ended its crewed space shuttle program with the launch of Atlantis on July 8, 2011, and ...

After the end of the space shuttle program, NASA turned to private companies to fill the gap. That isn't working out for the ...

"I remember Gordy [Project Mercury astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr.] telling us at a dinner party in our house that he had seen something,' Mrs Mitchell told the Daily Mail. "He said, 'Listen ...

Here's a look at some others who found themselves stuck in space — by choice or not — along with some cool spaceflight ...

He spends 108 minutes in space and makes one orbit around the earth. May 5, 1961 – Project Mercury astronaut Alan B. Shepard is the first American in space aboard Freedom 7. He spends 15 minutes ...

Inspired by the garments worn by NASA's Mercury 7 astronauts, Barbie famously donned an astronaut suit two years after the world's first woman lifted off for space and almost two decades before a ...