NASA is sending the first Black and first female astronauts to the moon in an upcoming launch, marking the first journey to the moon in over 50 years.

NASA’s Mike Fincke has publicly identified himself as the astronaut who had a concerning “medical event” that led to an early exit from the International Space Station.

NASA has identified astronaut Mike Fincke as the Crew-11 member who had a medical event on the ISS, leading to the outpost's first medical evacuation.

On, NASA marked a major milestone in America’s early space program with the first successful launch of a Mercury-Atlas rocket. [...] ...

When Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human into space on April 12, 1961, the American space program rose to the occasion, and less than a month later, astronaut Alan Shepard became the ...

The Artemis II mission, which will return US astronauts to lunar space, has run into problems that have critics demanding NASA remove the crew from the flight for safety reasons. The bigger question ...

Sophie Adenot is one of four astronauts now heading towards the International Space Station to replace a crew that was evacuated last month because of an unidentified medical issue.

The replacements for the astronauts involved in NASA's first medical evacuation are on their way to the International Space ...

For decades, rockets have been the only way to reach orbit. However, engineers and physicists have proposed alternatives ranging from space elevators to electromagnetic launch systems. These concepts ...

Wisconsin grandmother, Frances Dahlke, said she rode on a plane for the very first time on a Feb. 8 flight to Chicago that was piloted by her grandson, Alex Shupe She told a local outlet that she ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Frances Dahlke, 88, had reached many milestones in her life, but there was one she had yet to check off - taking her first flight.

A Wisconsin grandmother has just checked something off her bucket list — her very first plane trip. Frances Dahlke, 88, had reached many milestones in her life, but had yet to check off flying. She ...