Selected from 20 candidates, Prince Sultan bin Salman Al Saud travelled aboard NASA’s Space Shuttle Discovery in 1985. His historic flight made him the first Saudi citizen, the first Arab and the ...

The crew of Space Shuttle Discovery’s Return to Flight mission (STS-114) will return to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) at 11:30 a.m. EDT Friday, July 22. The seven astronauts, led by Commander ...

Retired Canadian Space Agency astronaut Marc Garneau describes the time he picked up a spinning satellite in space known as ...

Forty years ago, the NASA space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven crew members. Among the seven crew members were five NASA astronauts, as well as a payload ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On November 22, 1989, the space shuttle Discovery launched on mission STS-33. It lifted off from Kennedy Space Center and up into ...

Animation illustrating the International Space Station (ISS) assembly process the station was built piece by piece over more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's official. Not a single person under the age of 25 has lived a day where there has not been a human orbiting Earth − and that ...

Space Shuttle Columbia's 1994 mission studied animal reproduction in zero gravity. Four red-bellied newts and medaka fish were part of biology experiments. At least 32 newt eggs and 25 medaka fry ...