Mercury astronaut John Glenn was 77 when he returned to orbit on a short shuttle flight in 1998. But he’d been gone from NASA ...

Spacewalking astronauts repaired and upgraded the famed Hubble Telescope during five missions from 1993 to 2009. Here's a ...

Astronaut Don Pettit, who has been at the International Space Station since September, is set to land Saturday in Kazakhstan ...

"Knock on wood, it can go another 10 years," former astronaut John Grunsfeld says. John Grunsfeld has a model of the Hubble Space Telescope on his bookshelf. It's right next to a model of a NASA ...

NASA hasn't closed the door on the ... But Hubble was designed to be serviced in orbit, and astronauts did just that during a space shuttle mission in December 1993. They fixed the mirror problem ...

Don Pettit, NASA's oldest active astronaut, marked his 70th birthday by landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan after 220 days in ...

DR. JAMES NEWMAN, FORMER NASA ASTRONAUT "I WAS A "I WAS A TEENAGER ... SELECTED BY NASA IN 19-90....NEWMAN WAS ON FOUR SPACE SHUTTLE MISSIONS...INCLUDING THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION ASSEMBLY ...

The creatives behind this Apple TV+ sci-fi series consulted with real astronauts to ensure its depiction of an alternate ...

Steak and eggs is the standard pre-launch meal for NASA astronauts, a tradition that dates back to the dawn of American ...

A veteran NASA astronaut who flew to orbit ... has now flown on three long-duration missions to the space station since he was selected as an astronaut in 1996. A native of Oregon, Pettit holds ...

NASA Astronaut Captures Stunning Photo of Galactic ... Pettit launched on board the Space Shuttle Endeavour on November 23, 2002 for his first mission on board the ISS. That mission was originally ...