A company working to develop the world's first commercial space station sent a satellite into orbit to verify the technologies it needs to operate its inaugural module. Now, Vast is selling the metal ...

Milt Windler, one of the four leaders of Mission Control who in 1970 directed the round-the-clock efforts to bring the Apollo 13 crew back to Earth safely, has died at the age of 94. Windler died on T...

Joshua Kutryk could not quite fathom he had left the planet. And yet all he needed to do to verify that he was in orbit for himself was to locate "Lucky," his and his Crew-13 crewmates' Apollo 13-insp...

A two-piece flight suit made for the first astronaut to walk on the moon has surfaced at an auction benefiting a space history museum in Florida. The jacket and trousers were part of a training or spa...

Did you know that the first character that Walt Disney created to specifically appear on television was inspired, in part, by early Space Age rocket scientists? Sixty-five years ago, Disney introduced...

A special visitor made a secret trip to the International Space Station earlier this year to spark interest in the European Space Agency (ESA) and its activities. Pikachu spent 67 days on board the or...

When thousands of Star Trek fans were successful in their write-in campaign to name NASA's first space shuttle after their favorite starship, the effort not only became space history, but added to the...

NASA traded space for sports history in a high-profile demonstration of its aeronautics and space capabilities. The agency deployed two of its astronaut training jets for its first-ever formation flyo...

The commander and pilot of NASA's historic Artemis II mission have gained a new distinction five months after splashing down from the moon. Reid Wiseman and Victor Glover are the first astronauts to j...

Sixty years after television audiences first tuned in to see the voyages of the Starship Enterprise, an astronaut on board the International Space Station has paid tribute to "Star Trek" by flying the...

McDonald's new adult Happy Meal celebrates "Space City" in the Lone Star State. The fast food chain has launched a Texas-only promotion offering a collectible cup depicting an astronaut and space shut...

Christina Koch was never in jeopardy while traveling farther into space than any person had gone before. No, for that, she had to wait until she was back from the moon. The Artemis II mission speciali...

The first Japanese citizen to launch into space, Toyohiro Akiyma was also the first commercially-sponsored cosmonaut and world's first journalist to file reports while on a spaceflight. Akiyama died a...

NASA has revealed the first component of its Moon Base to be delivered with the next U.S. astronauts to step foot on the lunar surface. The space agency debuted the commemorative plaque to be mounted ...

As NASA's first chief astronomer, Nancy Grace Roman championed the launch of space-based telescopes, providing astronomers the chance to "peer through a keyhole" into the cosmos. Now, an orbital obser...

For the first time in decades, NASA has rolled out one of its iconic astronaut training aircraft with a bold new look. The space agency debuted a new livery on one of its T-38 jets in celebration of i...

The first astronauts to fly to the moon in more than 50 years will receive the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. Artemis II crewmates Red Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen wil...

A European Space Agency (ESA) research project has resulted in the launch of a new market for space commercialization: snacks. Space Snacks from the Lithuanian company UAB Geld Baltic are freeze-dried...

For the fourth time in its history, NASA's Kennedy Space Center will host a public air show from on its property in Florida. The space agency announced "Max Power," a two-day expo of "American air and...

As Virgin Galactic nears christening the first of its next generation SpaceShip designed to launch customers on suborbital flights, it still is missing a key component -- a name. The commercial spacel...

A full-size recreation of the first linkup between U.S. and Russian spacecraft is now on the move from the Smithsonian. The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) display has a new home at the Stafford Air ...

A small ball was once thrown out to "catch 'em all," beginning a competition and attracting the attention of the entire world. Now, almost 70 years after the launch of Sputnik, ESA has teamed up with ...

In its 35 years orbiting Earth, the Hubble Space Telescope has been released as a LEGO model three times. Now, a fourth take on the telescope refocuses attention from the outside of the satellite to w...

The unusual tools that an astronaut-turned-artist famously used to infuse not just what it felt to walk on the moon, but pieces of the moon itself, have now commanded auction results higher than some ...

NASA has jumped on the collectible popcorn bucket bandwagon, or rather in this case, the bus. To mark the 60 years since its start as only a bus tour, the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Flori...

A group of retired astronauts will land at college campuses and town halls this summer to promote their next mission. Astronauts For America's nonpartisan "Vote For Freedom" campaign by will see the ...

Swatch is celebrating the 57th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission with a new, limited edition gold model of its MoonSwatch. You can buy the new Mission to the Moon 1969 wristwatch if you can land on...

A dried out marker and a snapped off piece of plastic sold for $857,600 at a Sotheby's auction. What otherwise might be worthless bits of trash commanded the highest bids of the sale due to where the ...

The first former SpaceX employee to fly into space as a NASA astronaut, Anil Menon, lifted off on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, flying with two cosmonauts, Pytor Dubrov and Anna Kikina, the latter the f...

With Barbie you can be anything, even an astronaut ... on a postage stamp. The U.S. Postal Service "honored the possibilities and hope" conveyed by Mattel's line of fashion dolls by issuing ten Barbie...

Aleksandr Aleksandrov, the second Bulgarian to fly into space and the first to live on a space station, has died at the age of 74. Aleksandrov flew on Soyuz TM-5, a visiting mission during the Mir spa...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been revealing the building blocks of the cosmos for more than 35 years. Now, it is its turn to be made up of toy bricks. The LEGO Icons Hubble Space Telescope is a 1,25...

Wally Funk, who in 2021 became the oldest woman to fly into space -- 60 years after she and 12 other women sought the same opportunity as NASA's original astronauts -- has died at the age of 87. Funk ...

A new, limited edition collectible is both a flown artifact from a historic NASA space program and a souvenir of a one-of-a-kind museum exhibit. MotorArt PlaneTags is set to begin sales of its Space S...

The first non-American to fly to the moon has announced he is retiring from the Canadian Space Agency. Jeremy Hansen, who flew as as mission specialist aboard NASA's Artemis II mission, will leave his...

NASA now has the next United States flag to be deployed on the surface of the moon. A member of the last mission to land on the moon, joined by the most recent astronauts to fly there, accepted the ba...

Did you know that the space shuttle once launched the Statue of Liberty into space? In fact, there were two "Lady Liberties" on Discovery. With the U.S. celebrating its 250th birthday, what is the old...

Michael Collins looked down at his watch. The Apollo 11 astronaut had already beaten the original schedule for this opening by three days, but no one would remember that if these final 36 minutes on T...

The first astronauts to fly by the moon in more than 50 years could receive an honor previously only bestowed to the first crew to land there, if a former space shuttle commander's Artemis II Congress...

Danny Olivas did not launch on Endeavour, but as a space shuttle astronaut he was thrilled to be among the first people to see the orbiter on vertical display. Olivas joined members of the media for a...

There are some sights that photographs cannot do justice. A new one debuts on Nov. 13, as the California Science Center in Los Angeles at long last reveals the space shuttle Endeavour inside the new S...

Abdul Ahad Momand, the first citizen of Afghanistan to fly into space, has died at the age of 67. Momand's death was due to cancer, according to his family. In 1988, he flew on a nine-day Interkosmos ...

Among the artifacts now on display in the newly-opened Barack Obama Presidential Center is a jacket that was only worn for a few minutes. The blue coat is of the type that astronauts wear but this one...

Aleksandr Samokutyaev, a cosmonaut who served twice as a crew member aboard the International Space Station (ISS), including during the final U.S. space shuttle mission in 2011, has died. He was 56. S...

One of the United States' most-storied space launch sites has been cleared of its towers, making way for modern rockets to use the pad. Space Launch Complex-6 (SLC-6) is arguably more famous for what ...

How does a spaceflight company celebrate going public? With a mission patch and a (rocket engine) bell, of course. SpaceX (SPCX on Nasdaq) debuted the collectibles on the same day that its IPO (initia...

NASA's first astronauts to fly to the moon in more than 50 years handed off the baton to the next four people to launch on an Orion. The Artemis III crew is commander Randy Bresnik, pilot Luca Parmita...

NASA's Artemis II crew are the fastest people alive, and now they have the patch to prove it. The Mach 39 patch is an update to the 40-year-old original Mach 25 patch, the design of which inspired the...

NASA is inviting the public to its main office in the nation's capital. The space agency has completed redesigning the entrance to its Mary W. Jackson Headquarters Building in Washington, D.C. to incl...

NASA's MAVEN mission has ended as it began: with a mystery. The twelfth spacecraft to enter orbit around the red planet, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, or MAVEN, probe has studied what be...