Space Flight

Watch Three Humans Take A Flawless Ride To Space Yesterday

And now we have six people in space again -- including the first-ever Italian woman to reach orbit. Samantha Cristoforetti…

10 years ago

Antares’ Doomed Descent into Hellish Inferno – Up Close Launch Pad Photo Exclusive: Pt. 1

Up close launch pad camera view as Antares descended into a hellish inferno after the first stage propulsion system at…

10 years ago

NASA Aims To Slash Space Shipping Costs With Shiny 3-D Printer

Need a part on the International Space Station? You're going to have to wait for that. That is, wait for…

10 years ago

Yuri Gagarin Memorialized in a Funky Music Video

On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin entered the "realm of myth and legend" when he became the first…

10 years ago

Wake Up, Pluto Spacecraft! New Horizons Emerges From Nap Next Month

It's not quite the cryogenic sleep featured in Interstellar, but all the same, NASA's New Horizons probe has spent most…

10 years ago

Virgin Galactic Crash Survivor Didn’t Know Re-Entry System Was Turned On Prematurely

The surviving co-pilot of the Virgin Galactic crash was unaware that SpaceShipTwo's re-entry system was unlocked prematurely during the flight…

10 years ago

Incredible Snow-Dragging Spaceship Landing From The Space Station

Check out that landing mark! A Soyuz spacecraft carrying three people touched down safely in remote Kazakhstan late Sunday (EDT)…

10 years ago