Following a seven-month stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS), NASA astronaut Don Pettit and two Russian cosmonauts landed safely in Kazakhstan aboard a Soyuz spacecraft on Sunday local ...

There is only one way to experience lunar gravity while still on Earth, or rather a few thousand feet above its surface: on a parabolic flight. In this exclusive mini-documentary, Space.com reporter ...

The "Blue Marble" was the first photo of the whole Earth and the only ever taken by a human. Fifty years on, new images of ...

Well, in the predawn hours of April 25 it literally will be thanks to a double conjunction that will see Saturn, Venus and ...

A space homecoming is coming soon as NASA astronaut Don Pettit and two Russian cosmonauts wrap up a 220-day orbital mission aboard the International Space Station. The trio will land in Kazakhstan on ...

The NASA HALO capsule being built in Gilbert will serve as a habitat for astronauts orbiting the Moon before they launch onward to Mars.

BUT THE MOON LANDING MOMENT IN ... DR. JAMES NEWMAN, FORMER NASA ASTRONAUT "I WAS A "I WAS A TEENAGER AND IT WAS SOMETHING THAT CERTAINLY INSPIRED ME TO LOOK AT NASA AS A CAREER AND NASA AS ...

April 20 (UPI) --Veteran NASA astronaut Don Pettit celebrated ... from Mars and after inserting themselves into low Earth orbit, they will look down at this blue jewel circling below and say ...

The story of William Anders' iconic Earthrise image, which helped to spur Earth Day and the environmental movement ...

The timing of their parachute-assisted return to Earth coincided with the US astronaut’s 70th birthday ... s second descent on the far side of the moon, where no other country has reached.

NASA astronaut Don Pettit celebrates his 70th birthday with a spectacular return from the International Space Station after 220 days in orbit.

But NASA’s oldest serving astronaut Don Pettit became a septuagenarian while hurtling towards the Earth to wrap up a ... inflatable medical tent. Despite looking a little worse for wear as ...