When director Cristina Costantini started making a documentary about the first US woman in space, she thought it would be looking back on the "sexism and homophobia of yesteryear".

Water’s my jam.” Dituri did apply to be an astronaut in 2024; he never heard back. Although he meets current qualifications, ...

A National Geographic documentary directed by Cristina Costantini explores Sally Ride's personal life with interviews from ...

Originally set for an eight-day mission aboard Boeing's Starliner capsule, technical issues prolonged their journey, landing them back in March. Both astronauts have since ... The return highlights ...

This was to distribute all the forces of the launch across the astronaut's back. A similar principle was used when creating the first rearward facing car seat. A Swedish professor, Bertil Aldman ...

The astronaut now facing the challenge of assessing if she ... "It's incredibly exciting that we, as humanity, are going back to the Moon, and of course, any way that I could be a part of that ...

Following a seven-month stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS), NASA astronaut Don Pettit and two Russian cosmonauts landed safely in Kazakhstan aboard a Soyuz spacecraft on Sunday ...

In each doghouse, two thrusters are aft-facing, two are forward ... rendezvous orbital dynamics going back decades. [Wilmore is one of only two active NASA astronauts who has experience piloting ...

Astronaut Butch Wilmore described the feeling of returning to Earth, and splashing back onto Earth. "Returning from space to earth, through the atmosphere inside of a 3,000 degree fireball a ...

SpaceX pulled off the forward-facing docking apparatus ... become the first commercial astronaut to perform a tethered spacewalk. For Fram2, though, the cupola is back. Fram2 is named after ...

Sunita Williams News: NASA astronauts Sunita Williams, and Barry 'Butch' Wilmore are finally back to Earth after their short-space mission turned into 286 days wait for rescue at the International ...

They lose their bone strength. That's why astronauts spend hours each day exercising while on the space station. In fact, back in 2012, Williams even showed me how she was preparing to do ...