On March 31, 1962, NASA approved the design of the new Gemini spacecraft. This small capsule could carry two astronauts into space at a time. NASA created the Gemini program to help the U.S. get ready ...

In the 1970s, NASA partnered with the U.S. Postal Service on an overlooked project that helped shape modern EV development.

Sixty years ago, a fleet of sleek little spaceships paved the way for America to land a man on the Moon. Project Gemini was a series of two-man, Earth-orbital missions that pioneered rendezvous, ...

Early this morning, the crew of a commercial space mission opened the hatch of their Crew Dragon capsule as they orbited 435 miles above Earth. Half the Polaris Dawn crew, SpaceX astronaut Sarah ...

James McDivitt, a former NASA astronaut who commanded the Gemini IV and Apollo 9 missions, died in his sleep last week in Tucson, Arizona, NASA said in a statement Monday. He was 93. McDivitt was ...

The U.S. has not sent a man into space since May 1963—when Astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper stayed in orbit for 34 hr. 20 min. Cooper’s flight signaled the end of the Mercury program and the start of the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Famed Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell passed away on August 7 in Lake Forest, Illinois, at the age of 97. Jim Lovell was a key figure in NASA’s history, known for his roles in the ...