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World’s Oldest Satellite Has Been in Space for 67 Years. Engineers Want to Bring It Home
A proposed mission seeks to retrieve Vanguard-1 and display it as an ancient relic of the space age.
Navy SEAL-turned-NASA astronaut Jonny Kim is on his first space mission to the ISS. See photos of him at work.
Jonny Kim was a doctor and Navy SEAL before becoming a NASA astronaut. He launched on Russian spacecraft Soyuz for his first ...
Who are the NASA astronauts who have been stuck in space for nine months?
NASA's stuck astronauts are heading home now that a replacement crew has arrived at the International Space Station ...
History Today: How Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space
Soviet Union’s cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to travel to space. Lasting there for just 108 ...
Concern for stranded NASA astronaut Suni Williams quashed with doctor's curious admission
Williams safely returned to Earth on March 18 after being stranded on the International Space Station for nine months - but ...
NASA astronauts detail how their weeklong mission turned into 9 months in space
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams talk about their flight test on Boeing's Starliner capsule during a media ...