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With the space shuttle fleet retired from service, the United States currently pays Russia more than $65 million apiece to fly American astr...

An upcoming documentary film titled The Principle is generating controversy because it's apparently reaching back to the 1500s and advoc...

New photos taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter have answered a long-standing question: the American flags planted on the Moon b...

Sally Ride became the first American woman in space when she was part of the crew of the Space Shuttle 'Challenger' in 1983.  She di...

"When astronauts return from space walks and remove their helmets, they are welcomed back with a peculiar smell. An odor that is disti...

"'That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,' said Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, on J...

I've been fascinated, if only occasionally inspired, by manned space exploration for my entire life. But even I'd probably be having...

If you want to see a high definition, panoramic view of Mars, you can watch THIS 23 second segment from the NBC Nightly News last night.

When I was a kid in the late 1970s and early 1980s, NASA regularly received a lot of media attention because the Space Shuttle program was j...

Apparently NASA's obsolete UARS satellite has now fallen to Earth over the Pacific Ocean.  But the headline of this related article caug...

By now you've probably already heard that a 20-year old (obsolete) weather satellite is expected to fall back to Earth sometime tomorrow...

I thought that THIS 4-minute segment on the CBS Evening News tonight was interesting.  It examines whether any of the six American flags p...

I thought that THIS article in The Economist today, titled, "The end of the Space Age," was very interesting because it didn...

Did you see the news last week about the woman who was busted in California after an undercover investigator with NASA's Office of Inspe...

Wehrner von Braun, the German-American rocket scientist who became the preeminent rocket engineer of the 20th century, died from pancreatic ...

The Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off yesterday on its final flight. There are only two more Space Shuttle flights scheduled after this one...

The United States' first manned space station, Skylab-1, was launched on this date back in 1973. I mostly remember Skylab because of its...

On this date in 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space, orbiting the Earth once before returning safely. He becam...

On this date in 1992, Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returned to Earth after having spent a record breaking 311 consecutive days in space aboard ...

When I was a kid in the 1970s, I was captivated by the conceptual paintings that NASA would release from time-to-time illustrating what th...