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 ...

Most astronauts who menstruate pause their cycle with hormones before hitting the stars, but in the future, we'll need more ...

Astronauts from NASA, the Canadian Space Agency, and the European Space Agency gathered with flight surgeons and support ...

Billionaires make it seem that we have all the tech we need to settle on the moon and Mars. But the hard part of living in space is adapting the human body to extraterrestrial conditions. Business ...

If we could farm in space, astronauts would have fresh, familiar foods. Those plants could recycle air and water. Plus, it feels good to be around plants. Once more people – and maybe even cats – can ...

Russell “Rusty” Schweickart was among the first astronauts in space and the first to pilot the lunar module during the Apollo 9 mission in March 1969 that laid the foundation for humans to walk on the ...

Living in microgravity changes the human body — and usually for the worse. Bone density decreases, muscles atrophy, and eyes swell, to name a few of the physical side effects of long-duration ...

Tim Peake is the first Briton to do a space walk. Astronauts Timothy Kopra and Timothy Peake at the International Space Station were scheduled to begin their spacewalk at 7:48am on Jan. 15, 2016.

Feb. 27, 2012 — -- The shrimp cocktail on the space shuttle must really have been something. On a two-week flight in 2006, astronaut Mark Polansky asked to have it on his menu every day. For ...