She worked on preparations for the second, third, and fourth shuttle missions, and was a Cape Crusader at the Kennedy Space ...

A man in a blue sweater smiles in a chair next to a book cover that reads "moonshot". Former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino shares important life lessons from his journey to joining the space program ...

Tom Jones has his fair share of space shuttle stories to tell. A veteran of four missions aboard the now-retired winged orbiters, Jones' NASA career was dedicated to the shuttle program, as he wrote ...

NEW YORK -- Veteran NASA astronaut Scott Kelly embarked on a historic mission in 2015 — he blasted into orbit to begin his record-setting, 340-day mission to help study the effects of long-term space ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. LOUIS, MO – Retired astronaut Scott ...

The following is an excerpt from Moonshot: A NASA Astronaut’s Guide to Achieving the Impossible by Mike Massimino. When you purchase products through the Bookshop.org link on this page, Science Friday ...

“Apollo: Through the Eyes of the Astronauts” is a new book produced by NASA and Abrams Books that provides a unique perspective of the historic program that took people to the moon nearly four decades ...

If, in fact, a picture is worth a thousand words, then astronaut Terry Virts has volumes to say about the view from space. So much so, that the 300 photographs that fill the pages of his new book ...

Part history, part technology and part policy analysis, Space Exploration and Astronaut Safety, a new book by Joseph N. Pelton, reviews the history of NASA’s space exploration program, its astronaut ...

Nearly everyone who was old enough to remember witnessing it on their televisions can recall the moment Neil Armstrong beamed back to Earth his famous words, “The Eagle has landed.” The successful and ...

In Beyond Words, Buddy the Bear takes a trip to space to learn that there are ways to support the people you love without ...

If you’ve ever wondered what space smells like, think about sparklers on the Fourth of July. “Slightly burned, slightly metallic” is how former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly describes it in his new book ...