CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning new picture of a grand and graceful cosmic butterfly ...

"I felt like it was time to give the Gemini program its due. It was an opportunity not to be missed." NASA's 10 crewed Project Gemini flights, which launched in 1965 and 1966, were instrumental in ...

Recently, there was a poll on BBS about the approximate age of Geminauts. The poll has been open for about three weeks, with 104 responses so far, making this likely the most comprehensive survey of ...

Boeing and NASA will conduct a cargo-only flight for the Starliner capsule, postponing crewed missions to ensure safety and ...

Commander Tom Stafford and pilot Gene Cernan preparing to board Gemini 9 shortly before launch Credit - NASA The last thing Tom Stafford wanted to do was cut Gene Cernan loose in space. Stafford liked ...

While most attention surrounding Houston's role in getting Americans to the moon in the 1960s tends to center on the Apollo program, the one that preceded it tends to get short shrift. The Gemini ...

The last thing Tom Stafford wanted to do was cut Gene Cernan loose in space. Stafford liked Cernan; he had trained hard with Cernan. For more than a year, the two of them had worked together to get ...

In the early, high-stakes days of the Space Race, reliability was nonexistent and accidents were common. But one of the most ...

New observations show that asteroid 1998 KY26 is a mere 11 meters across and spinning twice as fast as previously thought.

During the Cold War, the CIA launched a covert mission to seize a Soviet spacecraft before Moscow could recover it. The objective was to extract secrets about Soviet engineering, navigation tech, and ...

Casey Handmer is an Australian-born physicist, engineer, entrepreneur, and pilot renowned for his pioneering work at the ...