The ISS Phase I Shuttle-Mir program has reaffirmed what was learned on Skylab: that a manned space station can be surprisingly resilient in emergency situations. Much has been learned from the ...

On Oct. 6, 1992, the United States and Russia signed an agreement to share astronauts and cosmonauts. Known as the Agreement on Human Spaceflight Cooperation, this plan laid out the details for the ...

After a three-day struggle, the cosmonauts aboard Mir have fixed their automatic steering system, allowing NASA to press ahead with plans to send space shuttle Discovery on one last docking flight ...

Space Shuttle Program Manager Bill Parsons today announced several key leadership changes within the office as it reorganizes and evolves following the Columbia accident. “This is a critical time for ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Despite all the smiles and upbeat talk--for the cameras, anyway--American astronauts who lived aboard the Mir space station were unhappier than their Russian crewmates.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This NASA pin was owned by Dr. Sally ...

The space shuttle is the “world’s first reusable spacecraft,” launching like a rocket, orbiting like a spacecraft and landing like a plane. Space shuttles could carry satellites, space probes, and ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. (January 22, 2009) – George “Pinky” Nelson, William M. Shepherd and James D. Wetherbee will join an elite group of American space heroes as they are inducted into the U.S.

The ISS Phase I Shuttle-MIR program has reaffirmed what was learned on Skylab: that a manned space station can be surprisingly resilient in emergency situations. Much has been learned from the ...