Shuttle-Mir

Shuttle-Mir From early 1994 into 1998, seven American astronauts spent nearly 1,000 days living in orbit with Russian cosmonauts on…

On Feb. 19, 1986, the Soviet Union launched the first module of the Mir space station. Called the Mir base…

HOUSTON – NASA announced the Space Shuttle Program and subcontractor closeout modification to the Space Program Operations Contract (SPOC) with…

HOUSTON – Michael Lopez-Alegria, NASA’s most experienced spacewalker and the American holding the record for the single longest spaceflight mission,…

HOUSTON – NASA astronaut Chris Ferguson will return to his hometown on Nov. 7 to serve as the Philadelphia Eagles’…

WASHINGTON – NASA commemorates the 90th birthday of astronaut John Glenn. The pioneering explorer was the first U.S. astronaut to…

WASHINGTON – NASA, through the Harvard-NASA Tournament Laboratory, is supporting an online challenge for artists to design a T-shirt commemorating…

WASHINGTON – With the successful launch of the final space shuttle mission, Atlantis’ STS-135 mission to the International Space Station,…

WASHINGTON – Emmy-nominated composer Bear McCreary, known for his television scores, has composed a fanfare specifically to commemorate the final…