This review highlights how the unique stressors of space travel, radiation, microgravity, and circadian disruption impact ...

In the summer of 1973, astronauts Alan Bean, Jack LMA, and Dr. Owen Garriott conducted a nearly two-month mission aboard Skylab, the first space laboratory. Dr. Garriott, a scientist pilot ...

A diagram of the shower aboard Skylab during the Saturn Workshop mission in the 1970s. | NASA // Public Domain To make the astronauts feel more at home in orbit, Skylab—the first U.S. space ...

Standing at 363 feet tall and weighing around 6.2 million pounds, the Saturn V rocket successfully launched 13 missions, beginning with Apollo 4 in 1967 and ending with Skylab, America's first ...

The Artemis programme and others aim to send humans to the Moon and, eventually, to Mars. Innovations in health care that support the mission crew could also benefit people at home.

China has taken a step forward in its ambitious plan to land astronauts on the moon by 2030 – unveiling the specially designed spacesuit its crew will don for what’s expected to be a landmark ...

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station may be far from family and friends this Thanksgiving, but will still enjoy a festive meal. The SpaceX CRS-31 supply mission that docked Nov. 5 ...

Trump seizes credit for astronauts’ return. He had little to do with it. A planned White House welcome for the astronauts could highlight the awkward relationship among Trump, NASA and DOGE.

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are finally back on Earth after spending more than nine months in orbit on the International Space Station, splashing down off the coast of Florida ...

Starliner astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are expected to return to Earth on Thursday evening after nine unexpected months on the International Space Station. Though the astronauts may ...

The astronauts on the I.S.S. — including two who were scheduled to return months ago — held a zero-gravity cookie-decorating contest and built a reindeer from storage bags.