Earth to astronaut Barbie, we have a new space collectible ... but probably not for all of the reasons Mattel intended.

Anita Mitchell, who was married to late NASA pilot Edgar Mitchell, said the Apollo astronaut and many of his colleagues firmly believed that extra-terrestrial life is out there ...

After flying Corsairs in WWII, he continued his military career which led him to two combat tours in the Korean War. In the first one, he flew F9F Panther. His tendency to attract AAA fire earned him ...

According to the wife of an Apollo astronaut, her husband used to tell her secrets about what he really saw in space. Anita ...

The first American, Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard, followed on May 5, 1961. The first woman in space was the Soviet Union’s Valentina Tereshkova in 1963. Sally Ride became the first American ...

United States Project Mercury," released in 1960, documents the rigorous training of America's first seven astronauts as part of NASA's Project Mercury. It highlights the physical and psychological ...

After the end of the space shuttle program, NASA turned to private companies to fill the gap. That isn't working out for the ...

then again to the seven well-publicized Mercury astronauts. Last week, with all the nonchalance of Casey Stengel reeling off a pre-game batting order, Project Mercury Director Robert Gilruth ...

US astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams arrived at the ISS in June for what was meant to be an eight-day trip.

May 5, 1961 – Freedom 7, the first piloted Mercury spacecraft carrying Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., is launched from Cape Canaveral. It is the first American space flight involving human beings.