The first spacewalk was conducted in 1965, by Russian cosmonaut Alexey Leonov. Nearly 20 years later, cosmonaut Svetlana ...

Don Pettit marked his 70th birthday on April 20 by plunging through the atmosphere in a Russian Soyuz capsule to wrap up a ...

Don Pettit arrived in Space City on Sunday (April 20), which happened to be his 70th birthday.

NASA astronauts revealed that the Boeing Starliner ... Wilmore said that as the Starliner approached the International Space Station, they lost the first thruster. As the Starliner got closer ...

NASA astronauts Barry 'Butch' Wilmore and Sunita 'Suni' Williams made headlines after being 'stranded' onboard the International Space Station (ISS ... Thinking he had lost control, they had to decide ...

Space missions are all about precision and planning… or at least, they’re supposed to be. But even in the vast, high-tech ...

While NASA attempted to publicly downplay Starliner's known issues during the early days of the problem-plagued Boeing Crew Test Flight last June, the situation was far more precarious for the ...

A senior citizen has returned from his seven-month mission in space, marking his 70th birthday in the best style. Don Pettit is NASA's oldest serving astronaut, and touched back down on Earth to mark ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronaut Jonny Kim safely arrived on a Russian spacecraft at the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday, hours after taking off from ...

This is the heartwarming moment a NASA astronaut who spent 288 days stranded in space was finally reunited with her pet dogs. Sunita Williams and her crewmate, Butch Wilmore, returned to Earth ...

Butch Wilmore was one of two astronauts rescued earlier this month from the International Space Station ... leaders taking an active role in NASA's human spaceflight program, which he described ...