The Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University is partnering with Canopy Aerospace to test next-generation materials.

The astronauts had scheduled sleep time and even ... to the space station on the Space Shuttle Atlantis. His second trip to space was aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft for a roughly six-month ...

Certainly, the costs of the space shuttle program continued to spiral and by the end of its 135-flight life, almost $200 billion (in 2010 terms) had been spent. “As a human spacecraft ...

Its core module had six docking ports available for the attachment of additional modules and connecting with spacecraft. In June of 1995, the Space Shuttle Atlantis launched for a 10-day mission ...

NASA astronaut Sunita ‘Suni’ Williams once unveiled the glamorous way astronauts sleep in their spacecraft. She explained ...

When the space shuttle program ended in 2011, for example, NASA had to rely on Russia for nearly a decade before SpaceX started flying crews. The Dragon capsule successfully completed its de-orbit ...

He returned to earth, emerging from the capsule. His sleeping quarters were cramped. On the International Space Station (ISS), an astronaut sleeps in quarters roughly the size of a phone booth.

One shuttle’s name even made reference to the television spacecraft, Enterprise. The brand new space shuttle Discovery visited Vandenberg Air Force Base on Nov. 6, 1983. After test glide and ...