The first "space tourist" blasted off on his trip of a lifetime today, after US and Russian space officials agreed to go ahead with the launch. Dennis Tito, 60, has become the first paying tourist ...

China's Shenzhou-20 mission has successfully launched into space. Scroll back through below to watch the blast off and read ...

The space shuttle Discovery launches from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, heading through Atlantic skies toward its 51-D mission. The seven-member crew lifted off at 8:59 a.m. ET ... and 13 ...

NASA's next special delivery to the International Space Station has a launch date, but it's going to be one for early-birds. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch an uncrewed Dragon cargo ship ...

Two Texas senators have introduced legislation that would strip the Smithsonian of the retired space shuttle Discovery and ... remaining on the planet to lift it, to install a tail cone or do ...

It was 28 January 1986, and the Space Shuttle Challenger was gearing up for take off. The crew had been taken twenty stories up the launch tower in a lift, with all seven members dressed in their ...

His latest is Into the Black: The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space ... when the shuttle’s solid rocket boosters fired, a sonic shock wave rebounded off the pad and ...

The rocket is set to land back on Earth just a couple of miles from where it first takes off. Since they're going into actual outer space, Perry and her fellow astronauts will experience proper ...