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Starliner's first crewed flight is final test mission before NASA can certify spacecraft for routine astronaut trips

Footage captured from International Space Station (ISS) displays Two Holy Mosques illuminated

SpaceX to launch five more astronaut missions to the International Space Station for NASA at the end of the decade

NASA invites the public to come up with an innovative idea to provide nutritional and sustainable food in space

Alan Shepherd's daughter is ready to embark on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocketship today.

Recording his experience in a book 35-years later, Prince Sultan says actual challenge was to offer prayers in shuttle

Footage from inside shows the two men being shaken around at the moment the failure occurred

"one of the great renaissance men of his generation -- engineer, fighter pilot, astronaut and artist"

He 'mis-measured' his height initially he clarifed

'Touchdown confirmed,' said a commentator on Nasa television broadcasting the landing

John Glenn a pioneer in space travel

John Glenn is the last surviving member of the original seven 'Right Stuff' Mercury astronauts

NASA will award up to three $30,000 prizes to the best 'space poop' solutions

Three astronauts landed safely in Kazakhstan Sunday following a 115-day mission aboard the International Space Station

The mission comes the same day a US space probe was cleared for launch to collect and return samples from an asteroid

Two NASA astronauts completed a six-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station to install a parking spot

Space is our future and should be shared by all human beings, he says

First flower even grown in space makes debut, US astronaut Scott Kelly wrote on Twitter, with a photo of the flower

Peake became first British astronaut to travel to space station after blasting off from Baikonur cosmodrome

Mobile transporter rail car carries the robotic arm from one location to another on the outside of the orbiting lab

Thanks to screen with virtual reality avatar placed in front of him he will feel like he is there

The commander of the 1971 Apollo 15 mission wore the Bulova Chronograph while conducting experiments on the Moon

Danish astronaut performed the breath-taking experiment while orbiting some 400 kilometres (250 miles) above Earth