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Astronaut Anne McClain talks about her mission aboard the ISS and what it means to represent Washington state in space.
Two NASA astronauts have completed a nearly six hour long spacewalk to maintenance and upgrades on the International Space Station, the agency announced.
Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers achieved most of their planned tasks on today's (May 1) 5-hour, 44-minute extravehicular ...
The first spacewalk was conducted in 1965, by Russian cosmonaut Alexey Leonov. Nearly 20 years later, cosmonaut Svetlana ...
McClain, an Army colonel and helicopter pilot, should have taken part in the first all-female spacewalk in 2019, but there weren’t enough medium-size suits. The first women-only spacewalk was by ...
Low Earth orbit (LEO) is on the verge of a major expansion in crewed operations, but the proliferation of space debris could ...
The three Chinese astronauts have carried out experiments and improvements to the space station during their time in space. Two of the astronauts, Cai and Song, conducted a nine-hour spacewalk, the ...
Veteran astronaut Don Pettit conducted hundreds of hours of research and captured over half a million photos during his ISS ...
Amid Blue Origin's space flight mayhem, meet some of the most famous female astronauts who journeyed and contributed to space science.
A veteran NASA astronaut just back from the International Space Station believes the orbiting facility can operate well past ...
In late March 1972, the Soviet Union's Cosmos 482 was launched. But that attempted Venus probe ran amuck during its ...