That's one small step for a man. One very expensive leap for the United States. Okay, sure, some would argue focusing on the total cost of the Apollo program defeats the purpose. Stepping onto the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 34 sits as a preserved and haunting reminder of NASA’s first major tragedy — one which lives on in ...

WASHINGTON — NASA expects to spend up to $1.5 billion to support at least two companies to demonstrate crew-tended space stations as part of the agency’s revised approach to transition from the ...

In 1985, Ellison Onizuka became the first Hawaii-born astronaut to fly into space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. Onizuka ...

The United States is no longer competing against a single rival in a largely symbolic race. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

HOUSTON—NASA is altering plans to issue contracts for the development of commercial low-Earth-orbit successors to the International Space Station (ISS). The ISS is scheduled to be safely deorbited in ...

An artist's rendering of Sierra Space’s expandable space station. Credit: NASA SYDNEY—NASA is delaying plans to issue a solicitation for the next phase of a public-private partnership program to spur ...

Larry Bell (left) and Chet Vaughan worked for many years for NASA from the moon landings to the International Space Station. When former astronauts from the Apollo era pass away, it tends to make the ...

NASA's Apollo 1 tragedy occurred on January 27, 1967, killing astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee. The agency annually remembers the Apollo 1 crew, along with the crews of shuttles ...