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Putting astronauts on Mars is one of the next big goals for humans in space. But who will those astronauts be?Missions to ...

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were barely known outside space circles when they strapped in for what was supposed to be a quick test flight of Boeing's Starliner capsule last June. Nine months later ...

Astronauts Butch Wilmore, left, and Suni Williams inside the International Space Station's Harmony module, June 2024. (NASA/AP) When NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore arrived at the ...

Most people never think twice about doing laundry, unless they are in space. While life aboard the International Space Station (ISS) is full of scientific marvels, one strange reality has recently ...

Forget all the scientific advances, the most popular question asked of astronauts is much more primal: How do you use the restroom? Suction is needed to counteract the lack of gravity, and it's not ...

Last June, astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore left on what was meant to be an eight-day jaunt to outer space. But their spacecraft malfunctioned, and they’ve now been gone for eight months, ...

HARLEM, Manhattan (WABC) -- Astronauts aboard the International Space Station reached out to students and alumni of the Harlem Link Charter School in Manhattan in an Earth to space call Friday. The ...

Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla recently detailed the complexities of handling medical emergencies on the International Space Station, where immediate help is not available.

It's safe to say that most of us have seen lightning here on Earth plenty of times – some of us have even been struck by it. But the natural phenomenon is one all but a few select individuals will ...

Feb. 27, 2012 — -- The shrimp cocktail on the space shuttle must really have been something. On a two-week flight in 2006, astronaut Mark Polansky asked to have it on his menu every day. For ...