On Sept. 14, 1966, NASA's Gemini 11 mission set an all-time spaceflight altitude record when two astronauts reached an orbit ...

The new book "Gemini and Mercury Remastered" features iconic images from the earliest days of human space exploration ...

NASA invited the public on Tuesday to grab a boarding pass and be a part of the space agency's test flight of its Artemis II ...

However, during these early years of spaceflight, NASA engineers and astronauts cut their teeth on a variety of spaceflight ...

Commissioned in August 1943, the Essex-class carrier USS Intrepid fought across the Pacific, surviving a torpedo at Truk and multiple kamikaze strikes while launching raids from the Marshalls to ...

Few cosmic visitors have captured the fascination of astronomers quite like the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Hurtling through ...

In 1978 Nasa announced 35 new astronauts for a new era of spaceflight – and six of them were women. Here's how the Space ...

One year ago, Jared Isaacman and his Polaris Dawn crew launched on a six-day mission aboard a SpaceX Dragon that made history ...

Born in St. Louis in 1930 during the Great Depression, Baldwin grew up in modest times before serving four years in the Army.

Eventually, he did launch, spending 15 minutes and 28 seconds ascending to space and then splashing down in the Atlantic Ocean. After six manned Mercury missions came Project Gemini. Buoyed by the ...