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 ...

James is a published author with four pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.

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 ...

Joshua Colwell (PhDAstro) wants to know how the Solar System formed. And after several small experiments aboard NASA’s zero-gravity “vomit comet,” he landed a grant to study early planet formation as ...

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 ...