In orbit, the astronauts aborted two spacewalks, both under unusual circumstances. Then, on October 25, one of the astronauts was hospitalized due to what NASA called an unspecified "medical issue" ...

In the past, spaceflight was the preserve of government-funded astronauts who had to meet stringent physical, cognitive, ...

This claim was, in fact, true. McCandless was, indeed, the first astronaut to perform an untethered spacewalk on Feb. 7, 1984 ...

Harvey describes the novel as a "space pastoral" about six astronauts experiencing 16 ... gender or nationality of the ...

Dressed in her blue NASA jumpsuit, Moghbeli stood before second-, fifth-, and sixth-grade students and talked about her ...

Her book 'Orbital', about astronauts looking down at Earth ... Mr de Waal dismissed the suggestion, saying that "there was no ...

In 1969, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon's surface—a momentous engineering and science feat marked ...

The anti-slip base ensures no sliding around — just solid support for your intergalactic adventures in reading (and home ...

Esa's most recent selection of astronauts was entirely of white European background, showing how far things still have to go. But its move to recruit McFall marked a significant milestone towards ...

British writer Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday with “Orbital,” a short, wonder-filled novel set ...

Her book Orbital, about astronauts looking down at Earth ... Mr de Waal dismissed the suggestion, saying that “there was no ...

British writer Samantha Harvey has won the Booker Prize for fiction with “Orbital,” a short, wonder-filled novel set aboard ...