Astronaut John Herrington, who spent his boyhood in Colorado Springs, works to inspire Native youth to become more involved ...

Eileen Collins, the first female space shuttle commander, speaks with Christiane Amanpour about “Spacewoman,” a film that ...

Space travel should by rights make for rocket-fuelled television, but documentaries on the subject too often veer into ...

Inside the American Museum of Natural History's glass cube, the Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- NASA astronaut John Young, who flew the agency's first Space Shuttle mission and walked on the surface of the Moon, has died. He was 87. NASA shared photos on its Twitter account ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This First Shuttle Flight Achievement ...

Seen in this historic photo from the U.S. space agency, the first Space Shuttle External Tank, or the Main Propulsion Test Article, entered NASA history on September 9th, 1977, when it rolled off of ...

Twenty-five years ago, humanity made a significant leap into permanent space habitation. On November 2, 2000, NASA astronaut ...

Thirty years ago this father-son duo Chris and Kenneth Bray attended the first ever space shuttle launch. They never went to another launch again, until last week's final voyage, where they recreated ...

Seven gold coins, once flown more than 2 million miles in orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia in July 1999 and valued at more than $1 million apiece, are set to be auctioned for the first time ...