Each was launched separately and connected in space by astronauts. December 1998 – The space shuttle Endeavour crew, on the STS-88 mission, attaches the Unity module to Zarya initiating the ...

But Rye did not find the excuse all that pleasing. “I don’t want you to touch me, that’s my personal space,” she said. O’Leary ended the interaction by saying, “I won’t ever do it ...

A constellation of satellites orbiting 250 miles above Earth’s surface shows how solar and wind have taken off in recent years: Here’s what renewable energy sites looked like eight years ago ...

Stuck in space no more, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth on Tuesday evening local time, hitching a different ride home to close out a saga that began with a ...

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were barely known outside space circles when they strapped in for what was supposed to be a quick test flight of Boeing's Starliner capsule last June. Nine months ...

NASA’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore — who gained international attention as their planned short stay in space stretched into a more than nine-month, politically fraught mission — are ...

Prohibitive launch costs and nascent satellite-positioning technology have historically hindered this sort of celestial drone show, but last April the Russian start-up Avant Space announced it had ...

They shared the ride home with two outgoing space station crewmates, Crew-9 commander Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov. Seventeen hours after undocking from the International ...

The astronauts are expected to return from their third trip to the International Space Station for a water landing off the Florida coast on Tuesday evening. And they aren't alone. Also on board ...

Now they’ll undergo a battery of tests to find out how the longer-than-expected space stay has impacted their health. The pair left on June 5 for what was supposed to be an eight-day mission to ...

Remember those two NASA astronauts who got stuck on the International Space Station for nine months? They finally returned to Earth on Tuesday afternoon aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon spaceship.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were barely known outside space circles when they strapped in for what was supposed to be a quick test flight of Boeing’s Starliner ...