Here’s a look at human spaceflight programs in the United States and around the world. Facts The United States ended its crewed space shuttle program with the launch of Atlantis on July 8, 2011, and ...
October 29, 1998 – John Glenn, at 77, becomes the oldest human to go into space, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. April 28, 2001 – Dennis Tito becomes the first “space tourist,” paying ...
What exactly happens to the body in space and what are the risks? In space, astronauts are exposed to varied and increased ...
Astronaut John Herschel Glenn Jr. is an American hero who did some incredible ... He was 77 years old when he became a member of the space shuttle Discovery team in 1988. NASA made sure Glenn was ...
A revelatory exploration of the seminal and transformative 18 months that one of music’s most famous couples — John Lennon and ... in the early 1970s. Glenn Close stars in this touching ...
Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin is preparing for a second launch of its New Glenn mega-rocket in "late spring," the ...
Last year, St. Cloud Inventor Felicity-John Pederson had a replica of the Space Shuttle moved from Florida to Minnesota with plans to use it as part of a museum. We’ve learned Pederson no longer ...
The U.S. military's classified mini space shuttle returned to Earth on Friday after circling the world for 434 days. The space plane blasted into orbit from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in December ...