Russia's Salyut (quite literally "salute") beat NASA's Skylab into orbit in 1971 ... In 1967, he was the first black astronaut and a Vietnam combat pilot with 2,500 logged flight hours who ...

The first black woman to go to space scolded a CBS ... According to Blue Origin, Perry and her fellow astronauts experienced three times the force of gravity as the booster accelerates.

Former Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard, who was recently inducted into the team’s Hall of Fame and will be inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame later this year, will play in the ...

“The crew who flew to space this week on an automated flight by Blue Origin were brave and glam, but you cannot identify as an astronaut,” Duffy wrote Thursday on X. “They do not meet the FA ...

"The signing of this agreement marks the first time that the Chinese government will select and train astronauts for foreign countries." For the first time, the Chinese space program will train a ...

My Ph.D. research examines memoirs written by women astronauts. They construct appealing depictions of women who are successful and exceptional. But in practice their success stories are nigh on ...

While they didn't get close to any stars, passengers aboard the latest Blue Origin flight included earthly stars like pop singer Katy Perry and TV journalist Gayle King. These celebrities now join ...

Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla is set to travel to the International Space Station next month as part of an Axiom-4 mission, four decades after Rakesh Sharma's iconic spaceflight onboard ...

Ed Dwight, the United States' first Black astronaut candidate, flew into space for the first time on May 19, 2024, as Blue Origin launched its New Shepard NS-25 spacecraft, its first human flight ...

Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla is set to embark on an exciting 14-day journey aboard the International Space Station next month, where he will carry out at least seven groundbreaking experiments.

The first human spaceflight ever to cruise over Earth's polar regions, the privately funded Fram2 mission from SpaceX, is set to carry four astronauts on a roughly four-day orbital mission.