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The first astronauts to enter a polar orbit around Earth chose the obvious animal to serve as their zero-g indicator — a plush white *polar* bear. The doll also has an emperor penguin embroidered on its chest, referencing the flight's South Pole passes.
After more than 60 years and almost 360 missions, a crew of private astronauts has done something never before done in human spaceflight: they headed due south off the launch pad. The Fram2 crew will be the first to see the poles from Earth orbit.
NASA's flight directors have taken a page from the astronaut crews they support, if not also the Masters Tournament, Hells Angels and even Saturday Night Live's Five-Timers Club. There is now a flight director's jacket.
John Scalzi cased out the Armstrong Air & Space Museum before writing his new book, "When the Moon Hits Your Eye." The bestselling author may have been confused of planning a heist given the way he eyed the museum's display of an Apollo 11 rock.
A nearly month-long space mission is ready to lift off, with final preparations being made at the Kennedy Center. To be clear, not NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, but rather the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
Earth to astronaut Barbie, we have a new space collectible, but probably not for all of the reasons Mattel intended. The toy company is celebrating the 60th anniversary of its first spacesuit-clad fashion doll with a new reproduction of Barbie Miss Astronaut.
The spacesuit worn by the first Briton in space, the Russian capsule that brought Britain's first professional astronaut back to Earth and the only Apollo command module to be on display outside of the U.S. will soon be on the move in the United Kingdom.
The first astronauts to fly on two different commercial spacecraft during a single mission, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, have returned to Earth, splashing down with ISS crewmates Nick Hague and Aleksandr Gorbunov on SpaceX's Dragon Freedom.
It was the opening scene of the 1995 movie "Apollo 13" and was recreated for the Neil Armstrong biopic "First Man" 23 years later. It was also included in director Mark Craig's 2014 film, "Last Man on the Moon," inspiring "Apollo 1," his new documentary.
Seattle's Museum of Flight has brought its collection of space artifacts up to the present day, thanks to a rocket engine that's been donated by Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space venture.
Robert Henry Lawrence Jr. (1935-1967) was a United States Air Force officer and the first African-American astronaut, but before soaring to these heights, he navigated the classrooms of Bradley University.
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space venture sent its 10th crew on a quick suborbital ride to space today, extending its list of spacefliers to more than 50. And that list now includes the first Blue Origin spaceflier who preserved a bit of his privacy as he flew.
Houston's Robert Pearlman, who runs the website collectSPACE, talks about the world of collecting objects from the history of NASA and human space exploration.
For more than 40 years, Jonathan McDowell has tirelessly catalogued the space industry. Now he is planning to retire, and looking to pass on his extensive collection of knowledge.
