Although NASA’s Project Mercury and SpaceShipOne served very different objectives, a closer look reveals that both missions ...

Never-before-seen photographs have been released showing NASA astronauts testing the limits of human endurance and technology needed to get humans to the moon and back. The restored photos from the ...

Those were the words Alan Shepard used 60 years ago Wednesday to note his cockpit timepiece had begun running. This meant his Redstone rocket booster had left the ground sending him and his one-man ...

Discover NASA’s full form, its missions, workforce, achievements, and how the agency advances space exploration, science, ...

"The first 20 women or so ... couldn't even imagine the reality or the possibility of becoming an astronaut except as they had read about it in science fiction." ...