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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 ...
"I was right in the middle of emptying the contents of my stomach onto the steppes of Kazakhstan," Pettit recalled ...
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 ...
It's a fairly common experience to leave your phone in a regrettable location. It's somewhat less common for that location to ...
Amid Blue Origin's space flight mayhem, meet some of the most famous female astronauts who journeyed and contributed to space ...
Microsoft had unexpected consequences on the day it celebrated its 50th anniversary. A day eagerly awaited by all members of the technology company, which ended abruptly, specifica ...
Stranded astronauts and celebrity space tourism have piqued interest in space — and a photography exhibition in the museum is ...