Mercury astronaut John Glenn was 77 when he returned to orbit on a short shuttle flight in 1998. But he’d been gone from NASA ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit is back on Earth after completing a 220-day mission aboard the International Space Station. Pettit, who turned 70 during the mission, traveled more ...

From life science to technology, local high school students participated in NASA's HUNCH program - and their projects may ...

Some see space as a future home for the giant warehouses of computer servers given its remoteness, endless supply of solar ...

SHELDON—In March of 2024, five Sheldon High School students helped NASA design a hypothetical space station during a ...

Since first launching a man into space in 2003 — becoming only the third country to do so — China's space program has ...

China announced the members of a three-person crew that will be launched to its space station as part of its growing ...

NASA's astronaut Don Pettit's return marked the end of a seven-month mission aboard the ISS alongside two Russian cosmonauts.

NASA's oldest astronaut ended up in Scotland just a few hours after returning from 220 days in space. Don Pettit and his team ...

HOUSTON—Russia's Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft with NASA astronaut Don Pettit and cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner ...

The coordinated, nationwide protests against the Trump administration saw major turnout in Houston, Austin, Fort Worth and ...

Don Pettit arrived in Space City on Sunday (April 20), which happened to be his 70th birthday.