Anita Mitchell, the widow of late NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell, has opened up about her experiences as the wife of an Apollo ...

Sixty years ago, a NASA astronaut’s antics on a spaceflight into low-Earth orbit sparked a national controversy in the U.S.

Long before Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams got stuck on the space station, Apollo 11 astronauts were having their own ...

Martian dust storms can potentially cause respiratory issues and elevated risk of disease, making them yet another health hazard space agencies need to prepare for, according to new research by the ...

Lovell's career at NASA began in September 1962 and he embarked on his first space mission for the Gemini 7 mission on ...

Apollo 9 astronaut and longtime Sonoma resident Rusty Schweickart spoke to a sold-out crowd after the Sonoma International Film Festival’s screening of the new documentary, “Apollo 1” on Saturday, ...

The documentary tells the story of Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee, who died after a fire erupted in their spacecraft on the launch pad.

Astronaut Edgar Dean Mitchell's experience in space led him to found the Institute of Noetic Sciences, which explores the science behind psychic and spiritual phenomena.

The study comes just when NASA’s Curiosity rover detected the largest organic compounds ever found on Mars. But while that breakthrough fuels hopes of uncovering signs of ancient life, the dust ...

The wife of a former Apollo astronaut has revealed some of the secrets her husband shared before his passing. Anita Mitchell, widow of the late NASA pilot Edgar Mitchell, who became the sixth man ...

He helped rescue the crippled Apollo 13 in 1970. And on Feb. 5, 1971, he became the sixth man to walk on the moon. While many of his fellow 1960s "right stuff" astronauts lead quiet, sometimes ...