For her part, director Hannah Berryman says it was the producers who came up with the title, but it was a perfect fit.

This claim was, in fact, true. McCandless was, indeed, the first astronaut to perform an untethered spacewalk on Feb. 7, 1984 ...

On Nov. 3, 1994, space shuttle Atlantis took to the skies on its 13th trip into space. During the 11-day mission, the STS-66 crew of Commander Donald ...

The new podcast 16 Sunsets opens with archive audio from Nasa’s mission control in 1981, in the build-up to the first flight ...

Watch as the International Space Station takes shape in this time-lapsed NASA animation of its decade-long assembly, which ...

View of STS 51-D crew commander Karol Bobko training with the Arriflex 16mm camera.

Other activities of the STS-8 crew included putting the Canadarm robotic arm through its paces and several experiments to see how space affects the human body, among other milestones. The shuttle ...

On October 23, 2007, the space shuttle Discovery launched the Harmony module to the International Space Station. ‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com The Harmony module is a ...

Air Force Colonel Eileen Collins wore this shirt on the STS-93 Space Shuttle mission in 1999, making history as the first woman to command a U.S. spaceflight mission. Except during launch, reentry, ...

He became the ninth person to walk on the moon as commander of Apollo 16 and commanded the maiden space shuttle mission, STS-1, on Space Shuttle Columbia as well as one other shuttle mission ...

NASA's Crew-8 has returned to Earth, but were taken for medical evaluation after a crew member suffered a medical issue.