Payload specialists in training for STS-51L take a break in shuttle emergency egress training in 1986. Left to right: Gregory Jarvis, Christa McAuliffe and Barbara Morgan. McAuliffe was selected as ...

Leland Melvin said that flying a space shuttle was significantly less nerve-wracking than being racially profiled by the ...

White Sands Missile Range has continued to play a crucial role in supporting U.S. space activities well into the 21st century ...

The Space Launch Systems rocket will launch Artemis II in April, using tech that would be familiar to space enthusiasts and historians. (Copyright 2026 by WKMG ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Artemis II crew completed a historic lunar flyby this week, becoming the first astronauts in nearly 54 years to visit the moon ...

As NASA’s Artemis program advances following its first crewed mission to the moon April 10, former astronaut Bonnie Dunbar ...

If he makes the cut, Cameron Jones will become the seventh University of Illinois alum to earn the title of NASA astronaut. Here’s a glance at the six others to date, ranked in order of time spent in ...