A KFC spicy, crispy chicken sandwich, riding in an animatronic "bucket satellite," mounted to a Stratollite high-altitude platform, is now soaring into the stratosphere carried under a giant balloon. But the Zinger 1 mission is not Kentucky Fried Chicken's first spaceflight.

A full-size mockup of a Soviet Buran space shuttle is departing Moscow for an exhibition center opening at the site of the 2014 Winter Olympics. RSC Energia, Russia's contractor for crew spacecraft, handed over the orbiter to Sirius Science and Art Park in Sochi.

The U.S. Mint will honor the important roles that Native Americans have held in the U.S. space program with the issuance of a dollar coin in 2019. Part of an annual program, the Mint's theme for the 2019 coin is "American Indians in the Space Program."

The U.S. Mint has taken a few "small steps" toward striking coins commemorating a half-century since the first moon landing. Three proposed designs for the curved coins' "tails side" were publicly revealed at a meeting of the Commission of Fine Arts (CFA).

"Okay José, you're on your way!" With those words, radioed to Alan Shepard as he lifted off to become the first American astronaut to fly in space, Bill Dana's role in space history was cemented. Dana, a comedian and actor who played "José Jiménez," died June 15.

Two craters on two different worlds explored by two different NASA missions have been linked to mark the 45 years between the two expeditions. NASA's Mars rover Opportunity passed by a young crater named in honor of the Apollo 16 lunar module, Orion.

For most of Bob Hines' astronaut candidate classmates, the act of putting on a blue flight suit was a new experience. But that was not the case for Hines, a NASA research pilot at Johnson Space Center. "I've been wearing it for a long time."

Jeffrey Kluger was a kid living in Baltimore when he watched NASA's Apollo 8 mission to the moon on the color TV in his mother's room. Even at 14 years old though, he knew something had changed. Fifty years later, he looks back in his new book, "Apollo 8."

KFC is launching its spicy chicken sandwich on a mission that could make history at the edge of space. The chicken restaurant chain revealed the details of its "Zinger 1" mission, which will the sandwich onboard the maiden voyage of World View's Stratollite.