Astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise (played by Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon and Bill Paxton, respectively) were ...

Read on for some of Howard’s behind-the-scenes secrets about the movie. He accidentally peed himself in front of Kevin Bacon.

Space fans to have weightless wedding on the "vomit comet." June 19, 2009— -- It's T-minus one day until Erin Finnegan and Noah Fulmor say "I do" in zero gravity, becoming the first couple to ...

On March 5, Menomonie High School (MHS) teachers Deanna Sulimann, Angela Krause-Kuchta and Ryan Ruegnitz traveled to the Houston Space Center in Texas to take part in the National Aeronautic and Space ...

Purdue graduate student Samantha Alberts and professor Steven Collicott discuss details of a zero-gravity flight experiment that flew this June on NASA's "vomit comet," an airplane that induces short ...

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HOUSTON, Texas -- Fifty years ago, Apollo 11 successfully landed on the moon, marking a historic moment for NASA and Houston. As we celebrate the anniversary, the space agency is releasing never ...

Try as he might, Willis Troy had not been able to lose weight. The 18 year-old, who weighed as much as 296 pounds until recently, had dieted off and on for many years with little success. That all ...

The Multi-Axis Trainer – also known as the Gimbal Rig or the Vomit Comet Chair – is a legendary piece of NASA training equipment. It consists of three concentric rings that spin independently, ...