NASA has signed a deal with SpaceX to have the California-based, Elon Musk-owned space company send its future astronauts to the International Space Station. NASA is already adapting the launch center ...

And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you — all of you on the good Earth. – Apollo 8 Commander Frank Borman, Christmas Eve,1968 ...

NASA has received its first astronaut candidate resignation since 1968, the space agency confirmed in a statement today. The decision was made by 2017 NASA astronaut candidate Robb Kulin who will be ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Fifty years ago on Christmas Eve, a tumultuous year of assassinations, riots and war drew to a close in heroic and hopeful fashion with the three Apollo 8 astronauts reading ...

NASA and SpaceX have landed four astronauts in the Atlantic Ocean after a successful space mission in the first 'splashdown' of its kind since the Apollo 8 moonshot. The quartet touched down in ...

this December 1968 file photo provided by NASA shows Earth as seen from the Apollo 8 spacecraft. The images provided by the NASA mission were the first to how the planet in its entirety. On the Apollo ...

On December 24, 1968, as the astronauts of Apollo 8 orbited the Moon, they caught an amazing view of the Earth rising over the lunar horizon. They were the first humans to see it. The view came as a ...

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Thisstory was updated at 5:09 p.m. EST. NASA'sfirst probe bound for the planet Pluto and beyond rocketed toward the distantworld Thursday after two days of delay due to weather. A LockheedMartin-built ...

The Crew Dragon's capsule parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico as planned shortly after 8am BST, marking a landmark mission for Elon Musk's company and the four NASA astronauts The first pre-dawn ...