At the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union pursued Spiral, a reusable orbital spaceplane designed to scout, strike, and intercept in space at extreme Mach speeds. This episode follows the MiG-105 ...

Brevard County has been a backdrop for films and television shows. At one time, Central Florida was referred to as "Hollywood ...

NASA faces strategic decisions and competition in a rapidly changing space exploration industry dominated by commercial ...

I sometimes wonder where we would be now, as a species, had the Soviet Union not collapsed and continued its space race with the United States. Would we have already colonized other planets by now, or ...

With Crew-11 set to depart shortly, command of the ISS will fall to Russian cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov. He'll remain on ...

Here’s a look at space accidents that have affected astronauts or other staff related to spaceflight. Accidents that involved unmanned spacecraft are not included. Timeline October 24, 1960 – The ...

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Before he found himself a target of the Trump administration as a US senator, Mark Kelly was a NASA astronaut who flew to ...

Veteran NASA astronaut Suni Williams announced her retirement Tuesday. Her extended mission to orbit due to the troubled Boeing Starliner test flight was her final foray.

Rakesh Sharma was launched to space via the Soyuz T-11 on April 3, 1984 as a part of the Soviet Interkosmos program and ...