On this day 35 years ago, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a picture that changed how we see our planet. The iconic "Pale ...

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Barry Wilmore remains at the International Space Station after problems with a spacecraft, with late March now the scheduled ...

The first photograph of our planet taken from outer space dates back to 1946 when the Americans used a captured German V2 rocket from World War II. At the end of the Second World War, the United ...

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Wilmore often takes photos of Earth from space and sends some back, according to his older brother, Jack Wilmore, and father, Eugene Wilmore. The astronaut is also scheduled to do a spacewalk on ...

Middle Tennessee-native Barry Wilmore’s return to Earth from the International Space Station has been pushed back again, but the delay did give the astronaut a unique photo opportunity.