On December 24, 1968, Apollo 8 astronauts William Anders, Jim Lovell, and Frank Borman reached lunar orbit, allowing…
Nick Hague is back in the United States following last week’s aborted launch of a Soyuz-FG rocket. The NASA astronaut…
A tiny hole in a Soyuz spacecraft attached to the International Space Station has turned into a strange game of…
Astronaut candidate Robb Kulin has become the first NASA astronaut-in-training to leave midway through the process in…
NASA has announced the first astronauts who will head to the International Space Station on a commercially built…
Introducing CIMON, a floating, basketball-sized robot that will serve as a companion and assistant to crew members…
Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the Moon, has filed a lawsuit against two of his children and a…
Have you ever heard of Guion “Guy” Bluford—the first African American in space? Despite his major place in history, his…
Astronaut Jeanette Epps, slated to be the first African-American crew member on board the International Space Station,…
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A team of astronauts is specially trained to solve an unprecedented disaster in space. It sounds like the plot of Armage…
In The Martian, Matt Damon used his own shit to fertilize potatoes and survive the Red Planet. While we all know Matt…
Sometime between your marine biologist and professional ninja phases, you probably dreamed of being an astronaut as a…
Astronauts are golden retrievers of human beings. The rest of us have to live vicariously through their resplendent…
We’re all clamoring to get into space these days, but lost in our excitement to fly to the Moon and colonize Mars is a…
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WASHINGTON, D.C.—It’s 7pm, and the Lisner Auditorium at George Washington University, which was packed with investors,…
Another day, another study showing how awful microgravity is to the human body. In the latest research, scientists have…
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