NASA’s astronauts have served as ambassadors of bravery and technological derring-do for the space agency. But the original astronauts ... selected for NASA’s Mercury program to have a ...

NASA Stennis representative Dawn Davis, left, interacts with people at the NASA booth during the 2025 FAN EXPO event hosted ...

Here is a look at the life of John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth and a former US senator. Personal Birth date: ...

Utah decked out in a silvery jacket (with NASA logo pin) and matching pants — something of a cross between the aluminum-coated nylon pressure suits that the original Mercury astronauts made ...

What Vast Space is trying to do, by showing its capabilities, is get involved in NASA’s Commercial Destinations in Low Earth Orbit (CLD) program, a project the space agency inaugurated in 2021 ...

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Bezos said he hopes to put “dirty polluting stuff” like manufacturing “chips and microchips” in outer space — a project he ... rockets after pioneering NASA astronauts from the earliest ...

While NASA was on the front pages trying to ... My father was Scott Carpenter, a Project Mercury astronaut, and he was fascinated by the sea. It's sort of the opposite of space exploration.