June 2002: Ask John Charles, STS-107 mission scientist in NASA’s Office of Biological and Physical Research (OBPR), for an early memory of space exploration, and he recalls his disappointment when he ...

News conferences and other media-related events have been set for the launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour on mission STS-113, the 112th launch in the Shuttle program. Mission STS-113 will launch ...

At 4:39 p.m. EDT, NASA astronaut Danny Olivas and ESA astronaut Christer Fuglesang began the third & final spacewalk scheduled during the STS-128 mission. The spacewalk is expected to last 6.5 hours.

Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-112 is now set for Monday, Oct. 7. The preferred time of launch is 3:45:51 p.m. EDT. The preferred launch window extends for about 5 minutes. The planar launch ...

From foxholes to flying helicopters in combat, and even to floating labs in space, when the U.S. Army needs unmatched ...

The orbiter broke apart while reentering the atmosphere at the end of the STS-107 mission. February 1, 2003 will live up as one of the saddest days in the history of space exploration. Just 22 minutes ...

Two women astronauts will set a spaceflight record next week, if all goes according to plan. STS-31's extreme altitude was a result of its main goal: deploying the Hubble Space Telescope, a top-tier ...

On Sept. 12, 1992, NASA astronaut Mae Jemison became the first African-American woman to go to space. In NASA's early days, women and people of color were never selected to go to space. NASA didn't ...