Final Orbit is the latest in the collection, and it's set in 1975 during the Cold War when the United States and the Soviet ...

NASA’s Artemis II mission, now set for February 2026, aims to send astronauts around the Moon. It is just one of many space ...

Modern views have been shaped by decades of commentary about Kennedy and the great space race, but a race was not his preferred option. Kennedy’s final U.N. speech—two months before he was ...

NASA astronauts Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers and two international crew members splashed down in the Pacific off California ...

Four astronauts returned to Earth on Saturday after hustling to the International Space Station five months ago to relieve the stuck test pilots of Boeing’s Starliner. Their SpaceX capsule parachuted ...

NASA released a video detailing what the Apollo 13 astronauts saw during their journey to the far side of the moon, the region never visible back on the Earth. CHICAGO — James Lovell, the commander of ...

James A. Lovell Jr., the commander of the Apollo 13 mission, led the three man crew, narrowly surviving a near catastrophic explosion in space in 1970. By Jamie Leventhal He led the three-man crew ...

WEATHERFORD, Okla. (KFOR) – When astronaut Tom Stafford and cosmonaut Aleksey Leonov opened a hatch connecting their two spacecraft in July of 1975, it marked the first of what would become many joint ...

DAYTON, Tenn. — The long-heralded clash between science and religion over the origin of man was eliminated from the Scopes anti-evolution trial today when presiding Judge John T. Raulston upheld a ...

On this date in 1975, a Soviet and an American shook hands. Even for the time period, this wouldn’t have been a big deal if it wasn’t for the fact that it happened approximately 220 kilometers (136 ...