America’s first astronauts of the1960’s “Project Mercury”, envisioned a place where former astronauts could be honored. In ...

The auction house also sold a gold Omega Speedmaster that belonged to Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell for $142,664. Though ...

A Chinese rocket carrying three astronauts to the country's space station blasted off from its remote launch site Thursday, ...

Jeff Bezos had one of his Blue Origin rockets take his fiancee and her celebrity friends on a quick ride into space — but are ...

NASA astronaut and keen astrophotographer Don Pettit returned to Earth on his 70th birthday on Sunday, April 21, completing a ...

An 18-karat gold version of the first watch worn on the moon has set a record for the most paid for an astronaut's timepiece.

NASA introduced its very first astronaut class. This dashing group of young men is known as the Mercury 7. They were all ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On April 9, 1959, NASA introduced the “Mercury Seven,” its first seven astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John ...

China announced on Wednesday that a veteran astronaut will lead two crew members on their first flight to the Tiangong space ...

Trying to dig herself, Katy Perry and Lauren Sanchez out of a P.R. debacle, King actually likened their Jeff Bezos ...

We were lab specimens." On Mercury, the astronaut was along for the ride. A booster would launch him and retrorockets would bring him back down. In between, nothing on the Mercury capsule would ...

China is allowing six nations, including the United States, to examine moon rocks on loan from the 2020 Chinese Chang'e-5 ...