Texas A&M University students digitize NASA scientist John Charles’ papers into an aerospace medicine library that's already aiding researchers.

Here's the semi-forgotten story of how, in 1986, NASA picked an Appleton high school student's experiment to fly on the space ...

Two new studies from researchers at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography provide encouraging news about ...

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The first food consumed in space was a tube of beef and liver paste, but fortunately, cosmic cuisine has come a long way in the past eight decades. These days, astronauts don't just eat freeze-dried ...

Being in orbit is great. Not so much if you want a carbonated beverage Andrew J. Ross These two cola cans—which were customized for use aboard the space shuttle—are in the permanent collection of the ...

On July 19, 1985, a high school teacher named Christa McAuliffe was selected to become the first American civilian to fly to space. McAuliffe won NASA's Teacher in Space Project and was selected from ...

ABOVE VIDEO: CNN Covers the Launch of STS-51-B,The 17th Space Shuttle Mission Launched at 12:02 pm EDT on April 29,1985. BREVARD COUNTY • KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLORIDA – The 17th launch of the space ...

Dr. Bernard Harris will be inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame. The Temple, TX, native graduated from the University of Houston in 1978 with a bachelor of science degree in biology. He then ...