Wilmore and Williams, both former U.S. Navy test pilots, expected to remain in orbit for about 10 days on the mission, which ...

NASA’s Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, whose weeklong Boeing Starliner mission turned into an extended stay in space, have ...

After the end of the space shuttle program, NASA turned to private companies to fill the gap. That isn't working out for the ...

After nine months in space, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams finally returned to Earth on Tuesday, March 18 — ...

Borman believed that "the fire enabled us to vastly improve the Apollo capsule ... tank aboard Apollo 13 aborted that mission. Ingenuity and clear thinking in space and in mission control ...

But that was before the Boeing Starliner capsule they took for a ... Unlike the Tiger Team the space agency put together to get the Apollo 13 astronauts safely home after their spacecraft ...

When an oxygen tank exploded mid-flight, the Apollo 13 crew was left stranded thousands ... in tragedy became one of the greatest rescues in space history. House Republicans Move to Crack Down ...

There’s an Apollo module on display in Michigan and its cold-war backstory is even more interesting than its space program origins ... as a different kind of capsule: a time capsule they ...

The skip reentry was used by Apollo ... and deep-space exploration flights. Capable of transporting six crew members (or 500 kg of cargo with a crew of three), the new capsule has a total length ...

November 3: Sputnik 2 carries Laika, a female dog, into space ... of the Apollo spacecraft kills three astronauts -- Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chafee -- in their capsule.