And it gave us the image of the cool astronaut, an icon as powerful as any in this century. Shepard’s cool owed much to his experience as a Navy test pilot. At Patuxent River Naval Air Station ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Fresh from space, NASA’s oldest full-time astronaut said Monday that weightlessness made him feel decades younger, with everyday aches and pains vanishing. Don Pettit ...

Sixty-four years after the first American to fly into space sought permission to pee in his suit, a new campaign is pairing the experiences of children and astronauts. Astronauts are helping to ...

Astronauts could start another spacewalk Wednesday ... But a backup system on the space station is keeping it cool, even with the failed ammonia pump, NASA said. Six people -- three Americans ...

An American astronaut has reached the International Space Station with two Russians to begin an eight-month orbital mission. Jonny Kim, who was selected as a NASA astronaut in 2017, arrived early ...