Astronauts

For the past year, five fit, academically superior men and women have been spun in centrifuges, submerged for hours, deprived...

Russia aborted the launch of three astronauts to the International Space Station moments before they were scheduled to lift...

Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford, who commanded a dress rehearsal flight for the 1969 moon landing and the first U.S.-Soviet...

SpaceX’s Falcon rocket blasted off from Kennedy Space Center, carrying NASA’s Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette...

It wasn’t until 1983 that the first African American, Guion Bluford, reached space.

The four astronauts assigned to fly around the moon for the first time in 50 years met with President Joe Biden at the White...

Marine Lt. Col. Jasmin “Jaws” Moghbeli is about to go where very few helicopter pilots have gone before.

Air Force veteran Eileen Collins was inspired as a child by the Mercury astronauts, and by the time she was in high school...

An Army brat, future astronaut Michael Collins graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1952 with an Air Force commission.

It will be China's longest crewed space mission and set a record for the most time spent in space by Chinese astronauts.