Astronauts Of 1st All-Female Spacewalk Uplifted By Excitement On Earth
Christina Koch and Jessica Meir, the U.S. astronauts who took part in the first all-female spacewalk, are still uplifted by all the excitement down below.
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Christina Koch and Jessica Meir, the U.S. astronauts who took part in the first all-female spacewalk, are still uplifted by all the excitement down below.
A historic first for the International Space Station.
NASA unveiled the latest spacesuits they're developing for the next generation of men and women heading for space exploration.
A power system failure at the International Space Station has pushed NASA to move the first all-female spacewalk to this week.
Astronauts replaced more oversized batteries outside the International Space Station on Friday during NASA's second spacewalk of the week, just as news broke of the death of the world's first spacewalker in Russia.
Astronauts Christina Koch and Andrew Morgan have completed the first of five spacewalks to swap out old batteries on the International Space Station.
Hey you! Yes, you! Want to go to Mars?
Two NASA astronauts floated outside the International Space Station early Wednesday to attach a second docking port for commercial crew ships being built by Boeing and SpaceX, essentially adding another parking spot.
In its first year in orbit, NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, scanned the skies discovering a variety of strange worlds including more than 20 exoplanets, or "missing link" planets entirely unlike anything in our own solar system.
50 years ago our universe got just a little bit smaller when Neil Armstrong took that giant leap for mankind and set foot on the moon.
Saturday marks the 50-year mark when the crew from the Apollo 11 mission landed on the moon.
On Saturday, NASA will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing.
It's been 50 years since the U.S. successfully put the first men on the moon. Between 1969 and 1972, NASA brought down more than 800 pounds of moon rocks, but questions remain over the whereabouts of some of those rocks.
The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 will be honored with a brand new special coming to CBS.
The Apollo program, which first took man to the moon, took a tremendous amount of resources. Now, public-private partnerships are helping move closer to the next moon landing.
The moon hasn't been visited in quite a while, but that could change in the not-too-distant future.
The Apollo 11 crew consisted of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, but there was a crucial "fourth crew member" on board: the Apollo Guidance Computer.
For years, NASA has been creating technology for space that ends up enhancing our everyday lives.
NASA's Apollo space program was dedicated to putting American astronauts on the moon.
Fortunately, for Apollo 11 and all of mankind, a young, brilliant MIT software engineer saw a potentially mission-crippling error coming from nearly a million miles away.
Growing up in rural Georgia, Lewis Wooten felt light years away from the long, illustrious career he has built at NASA.
On July 20, 1969, Commander Neil Armstrong announced to NASA mission control, "the Eagle has landed."
Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin launched from Kennedy Space Center on July 16, 1969 with a mission to land on the moon.
During the Cold War, one battlefront between the USA and USSR was in the sky, as the nations fought to be first to space.