The "worm" is back at NASA, sort of. Twenty five years after the agency unceremoniously retired the worm, its iconic logotype, in favor of returning to its first insignia, the retro logo has fallen back into NASA's good graces, at least when it comes to new merchandise.

Nearly 25 years after they lifted off together, Michael Foale and Ellen Ochoa entered the Astronaut Hall of Fame as inductees. Ochoa and Foale made up the 16th class of shuttle astronauts to be inducted, and their addition brought the total enshrinees to 95.

An Apollo 11 lunar sample bag that was the focus of a legal dispute is set for what could become a record sale. Sotheby's will auction the pouch, which protected the first samples collected from the surface of the moon, at its July 20 space exploration sale in New York.

Nearly 50 years after they lofted men to the moon, and four years after they were raised off the seafloor, the massive rocket engines recovered by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos have debuted on display as part of the new Apollo exhibit at The Museum of Flight in Seattle.

Viktor Gorbatko, one of the first cosmonauts and a veteran of three space flights, died on May 17. He was 82. In March 1960, at the age of 26, Gorbatko was selected alongside Yuri Gagarin and 18 other air force pilots to train as the first Soviet cosmonaut group.

A creative director obsessed with space and design has launched a Kickstarter campaign to bring a galactic greeting card from billions of miles in space back to Earth by producing and offering exact replicas of the Pioneer 10 probe's gold anodized aluminum plaque.

The first launch of NASA's heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System, will forgo a crew. The agency nixed adding astronauts to EM-1, deciding that the additional risk, cost and schedule did not warrant the work. EM-1 will fly without a crew sometime in 2019.

Two U.S. astronauts working outside of the International Space Station made the 200th spacewalk in the almost two decade history of the orbiting outpost. Spacewalkers Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer worked to replace an avionics box during the landmark EVA.

The first launch of NASA's Saturn V did not fly with a crew and, as great a feat as it was, few, if any of the people who worked it from the ground rose into the public's attention. A new series from Smithsonian Channel seeks to correct for space history's oversights.