Founded in 1990, the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame is part of the Heroes & Legends attraction at the Kennedy Space Center ...

Mike Mullane, author of "Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut." As a 12-year-old, he watched the Sputnik launch, and that was when he decided to work in the space ...

NASA astronaut Sunita Williams has broken the record for the longest time spent in space by a woman. The record was achieved ...

A little more than a year later, Rubins, already a biomedical researcher and astronaut, received a direct commission to the rank of major in the Army Reserve through training at Fort Sill ...

It is possible that astronaut could be Lt. (SEAL) Jonny Kim. In 2002, Kim decided to leave his hometown of Santa Monica, California to enlist in the Navy and join the ranks of Naval Special ...

Japan’s space agency has selected two new candidate astronauts to join its ranks who could even become the first Japanese to set foot on the moon. The science and technology minister announced ...