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A name has been added the United States' memorial for fallen astronauts, honoring the first commercial spacecraft pilot lost in the pursuit of opening outer space to the public. SpaceShipTwo pilot Michael Alsbury's name was added to the Space Mirror Memorial.
The first cookie to be baked in space may soon be bound for the Smithsonian. Doubletree by Hilton announced the results of the first-ever bake-off held off the planet, after three of its chocolate chip cookies returned to Earth from the space station.
The first African American to be selected as an astronaut is being remembered with the naming of a space station cargo capsule set to launch during Black History Month. The next Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft has been christened for Robert Lawrence.
The International Space Station is about to launch into the LEGO universe. The orbiting laboratory, which for almost 20 years has hosted a continuous human presence in Earth orbit, is being released by LEGO as a toy model.
Record-setting spacewalker Michael Lopez-Alegria, Pamela Melroy, one of only two women who commanded the space shuttle, and Scott Kelly, who logged the longest U.S. spaceflight to date, will be inducted into the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame.
A SpaceX launch has ended in an abort, dropping its crew capsule into the ocean and leaving its rocket in pieces — exactly to plan. In the last major trial before it can begin launching astronauts, SpaceX flew an in-flight abort test with its Crew Dragon.
A former NASA astronaut is starring in a Super Bowl ad to help "make space for women." Nicole Stott, who logged more than 100 days on three flights to the International Space Station, is set to appear in Olay's 30-second Big Game spot.
Snoopy's latest adventure as the "world famous astronaut" has now been revealed in a new video from Boeing. The aerospace company released footage from on board the first Orbital Flight Test (OFT) of its CST-100 Starliner commercial crew spacecraft.
NASA's new astronauts are ready to come out of their shells and walk on the moon. Nicknamed the "Turtles," the agency's 22nd class of astronauts have graduated from basic training and are now eligible for space flight assignments.
High-definition images of Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin standing on the surface of the Moon were released Monday on the occasion of Aldrin's 90th birthday.
The American Society of Civil Engineers has named the Vehicle Assembly Building at KSC as a national historic civil engineering landmark in a ceremony Friday at KSC.
Imagine a past in which the crew of Apollo 11 landed on the moon in 1969 — but then became stranded there, leading then-President Nixon to give a speech memorializing the astronauts.
A former NASA Johnson Space Center contractor was sentenced to two years of probation on Monday for stealing nearly $15,000 in flight jackets and reselling them.
