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Video: Next space station trio finishing training at Star City
Soyuz commander Anatoly Ivanishin and flight engineers Kate Rubins of NASA and Takuya Onishi of JAXA conduct final qualification training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center for their flight to the International Space Station in June.
VideoOn this date…Crew launched to fix Skylab
The first crew to inhabit Skylab -- Conrad, Weitz and Kerwin -- launched today in 1973 for a 28-day mission that successfully made critical repairs, brought the station into operation and conducted solar astronomy, Earth resources and medical experiments.
Video: Asteroid sampler craft delivered to launch site
NASA's OSIRIS-REx, the spacecraft that will grab a piece of Asteroid Bennu and return it to Earth, shipped to Kennedy Space Center from the Lockheed Martin production facilities in Denver on May 20 aboard an Air Force C-17.
VideoOn this date…Second American in orbit
Scott Carpenter launched atop an Atlas rocket to become the second American to orbit the Earth today in 1962, flying for 4 hours and 39 minutes aboard Aurora 7 while making three revolutions of the globe.
VideoOTD…May 15 and Faith 7
The final manned Mercury mission was launched atop an Atlas rocket on this day in 1963 with Gordon Cooper aboard Faith 7 for a 34-hour, 22-orbit flight.
VideoOTD…May 14 and Skylab
NASA's first space station -- the Skylab orbital workshop -- was launched atop a Saturn 5 rocket today, May 14, in 1973.
Video55 years ago today: America entered human spaceflight arena
The U.S. launched its first man into space on this date, May 5, 1961, as Alan Shepard rode the Freedom 7 capsule on a 15-minute suborbital flight to 116.5 miles in altitude and 303 miles downrange to splashdown.
VideoOn this date…April 16 and Apollo 16
Apollo 16 launched to the Descartes Highlands of the moon on this day in 1972 with John Young, Charlie Duke and Ken Mattingly.
VideoApril 14, 1981: Landing of Columbia on STS-1
VIDEO: The winged spaceship Columbia returned to Earth with a pinpoint landing at Edwards Air Force Base on this day 35 years ago, concluding the maiden flight of the space shuttle.
VideoApril 12, 1981: 35 years since the maiden space shuttle launch
America's first space shuttle launched on this day 35 years ago as the reusable flying machine, Columbia, lifted off from Kennedy Space Center with John Young and Bob Crippen aboard.