Suni Williams, a NASA astronaut and Needham native, is expected to answer questions from reporters on Friday about her unexpectedly long stay aboard the International Space Station.

Though they may never shed the label, the women who worked for NASA as human computers during the space race are no longer ...

It appears the Houston Rockets' upcoming City Edition uniform will pay tribute to the 30th anniversary of the franchise's ...

The administration's measure means SpaceX cannot launch any more rockets until it is lifted. DECISION MAKING: NASA astronauts at ... assignment reporter for the Houston Chronicle.

NASA has never fully explained its rationale for relying on two parallel sets of rockets and capsules for each Artemis mission to deliver a total of eight astronauts to the lunar surface over the ...

Boeing’s troubled Starliner spacecraft — not trusted by NASA to safely bring its crew home from the International Space ...

a Houston-based company, to fly private citizens to the space station. Recently, SpaceX announced another private astronaut mission, which would fly around the poles of the Earth, the first human ...

There’s even a dedicated training center for it: the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in Houston that exists to train astronauts for ... built bottle rockets, designed space suits, and learned ...

"The decision to fly Hague was made by NASA chief astronaut Joe Acaba at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston," NASA said ... the space station with its rockets in 2020.

NASA and Russian space officials came up with a plan to keep the outpost operating with skeleton crews of two astronauts launched on Russian Soyuz rockets. But NASA astronauts then were not ...