As someone who has lived and breathed the experience of navigating a world not always designed for me, the thought of space travel has always felt like a dream—a place where wheelchairs and paralysis ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The son of a NASA engineer, Paul Jeris grew up watching space flights and idolizing astronauts. This week, Jeris will emulate his heroes John Glenn and Neil Armstrong with a space ...

Pathfinder shuttle stack outside of the U.S. Space & Rocket Center. More than six decades ago, the United States launched its first satellite into Earth orbit, turning the dream of spaceflight into ...

Not every space traveler has worn a suit or walked upright. From monkeys to microscopic marvels, these species show how far life on Earth has reached. You’ve seen the headlines. The James Webb Space ...

After nearly two years on pause, Virgin Galactic is selling tickets again. The catch is the price. A seat now costs $750,000. That number is not a typo. It is also a sharp increase from the company's ...

NASA’s CHAPEA mission, designed to simulate the challenges of long-duration Mars exploration, has now reached a milestone, ...

Payload specialist Sharon Christa McAuliffe is briefed on launch/entry helmets by crew systems technician Alan M. Rochford in the Johnson Space Center’s crew systems lab. Credit: NASA / Courtesy Sign ...

We're going to go out on a limb and say most of us aren't paying the $150,000 down payment for an 11-minute trip to space. Sure, Blue Origin's historic all-female flight had us feeling a tiny bit of ...

If you're a space buff but haven't already seen the 1995 film "Apollo 13," it's worth the watch. It recreates the near-disaster mission marked by an oxygen tank explosion and emergency ocean-landing ...

In 1960 no one had ever traveled beyond Earth. Now more than 700 people have flown past the 50-mile-high mark that was considered the boundary of space when spaceflight first got started. At that time ...