Guided by a Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU), astronaut McCandless, pictured, was floating free in space. McCandless and fellow NASA astronaut Robert Stewart were the first to experience such an ...

They’re outer this world. It’s been almost six months since technical issues stranded NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams onboard the International Space Station. Since their ...

Medical issues aside, the astronauts described a water leak in June that triggered a blizzard in the International Space ...

Rather than being plunged into the seas, Dordain told me in an interview, the Space Station should be propelled upward, as a gift to astrophysicists, astronauts and space aficionados not yet born.

That’s where Anna Morgenthaler, an operational psychologist who works at NASA in its behavioral health and performance group, comes in. An operational psychologist is one who works with professionals ...

The unidentified astronaut flew back to the Johnson Space Center in Houston ... another excursion on June 24. While floating in the airlock with the outer hatch open to space, an umbilical failed ...

NASA started this 'voting from space' system back in 1997, when Texas passed a law allowing astronauts to vote from orbit.

Long stays in the low-gravity conditions of outer space can take a toll on the human body, leading to the loss of body fat, muscle mass and bone density. NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch ...

A green tinted view of earth from space with an astronaut floating on the left, and a large map of texas on the right above a window-covered rectangular building on the bottom right. Arrows trace ...