Alaska resident Esther Keim has taken to the skies for a unique Thanksgiving tradition: delivering turkeys to families in remote areas. For the third year in a row, Keim piloted her small plane to ...

Axiom Mission-1 (Ax-1) commander Michael Lopez-Alegria poses with the flight suit he wore on the first all-private astronaut mission to the International Space Station as it is now on display at ...

Astronaut Michael López-Alegría unveiled a new exhibit at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex this week that celebrates private spaceflight, noting that his experience with Axiom Space turned ...

Lopez-Alegria, who was a NASA astronaut from 1992 to 2012, logged more than 257 days on his first four missions. He is the first person to command both civil and commercial orbital spaceflights, as ...

Today’s high-tech spacesuit materials are a far cry from the cotton and rubber used by early high-altitude pilots. This story appears in the July 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine.

Scientists studied the cognitive behavior of astronauts who have spent six months on board the International Space Station — and made some fascinating yet ominous discoveries. As outlined in a ...

NASA astronaut captures spinning shot using lack of gravity at International Space Station Astronaut Donald Pettit often posts about life at the International Space Station on his social media ...

The odor — along with “droplets” the cosmonauts, or Russian astronauts, said they observed — likely resulted from “outgassing from materials inside the (Russian) Progress spacecraft ...

In 2021, while on her second space mission, the astronaut chose to return to her roots in the medical science field and apply for a commission in the Army Reserve while continuing her career at NASA.

The unpleasant aroma was strong enough to prompt astronauts to close the hatch connecting it to the rest of the space station and initiate anti-contamination procedures. The Progress 90 cargo ship ...