Space Newsspace history and artifacts articlesMessagesspace history discussion forumsSightingsworldwide astronaut appearancesResourcesselected space history documents
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 the Pokémon Company for World Space Week.
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 what makes its stunning observations possible.
France has eight new postage stamps commemorating the sixth and latest generation of Europe's heavy-lift rocket. Each of the eight stamps depict the Ariane 6 at various stages of its launch using photographs from its missions since 2024.
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 space travelers promote the right to vote.
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 two items were 57 years ago on the Apollo 11 spacecraft.
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 of the works they helped Alan Bean to create.
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 Florida is offering its first popcorn bucket.
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 one of the 1,969 spots available by applying online.
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 first to have flown on board a SpaceX Dragon capsule.
Inside Neil Armstrong's boyhood home, at the top of a creaky stairway, sits his bedroom where he launched model airplanes out of the rear window to measure how far they'd fly.
Diners were starstruck as an astronaut in a blue NASA flight suit entered BurgerRob's in Titusville on July 30 — a visit prompted by a mysterious dollar bill that landed in the register about a year ago.
Two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut closed out a 241-day stay aboard the International Space Station early Sunday with a fiery plunge back to Earth and an on-target touchdown on the broad steppe of Kazakhstan.
advertisements
