Credit: SpaceX The International Space Station orbits the planet at ... Though these are the first people to make this journey, low-Earth polar orbits are commonly used for weather-tracking ...

The all-female crew spent just four minutes in zero-gravity space, and took much of the time to mug for the camera inside ...

Russian Oleg Kononenko last year became the first person to crack 1,000 days in space over the course of a career. By the time he returned from the space station last fall, he'd logged an ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aren’t the first to run late in space, and their 9 ½-month mission falls short of any endurance record. But never ...