On May 7, 1992, the space shuttle Endeavour launched on its first flight. Endeavour was the fifth and last space shuttle that ...

NASA. On February 7, 1984, Bruce McCandless II slipped out of space shuttle Challenger and became something no human had ever ...

Tranquility is the last major piece of the International Space Station to be installed Astronauts put the last big addition on the International Space Station early Friday, attaching a new room with ...

Led by commander Mark Polansky, the astronauts will run through emergency escapes from the launch pad, practise landing on Kennedy Space Center's runway and learn how to put out fires on the shuttle.

While the success of Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett’s polar flight has been disputed, the former went on to accomplish ...

On the morning of May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan Shepard crawled into the cramped Mercury capsule, "Freedom 7," at Launch ...

Over thirty years ago, the final episode of NBC's hit sci-fi series Quantum Leap aired, with a cliffhanger that still haunts ...

Just when you think that the day-to-day operations of the Department of Defense/”War” can’t get any more nakedly political, setting a torch to a branch of the United States federal government that had ...

This week marks 65 years since a Derry man became the first American to travel in space.On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard made ...

"I am just fortunate to have the mobility that I do, and I want to take advantage of that while I still can," Mandy Horvath ...

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The Star Trek Enterprise evoked Americans' sense of adventure and a utopian vision of humanity. It's part of NPR's 250th anniversary series "America in Pursuit." ...