While the commercial Polaris Dawn crew geared up for the first non-government spacewalk, a NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts took off on a more traditional spaceflight Wednesday, launching to ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Donald Pettit, NASA’s oldest active-duty astronaut and Oregon native, is headed to space again. Pettit, 69, is from Silverton, Oregon, and this spaceflight, which took off from ...

MOSCOW (AP) — A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russians and an American docked at the International Space Station on Wednesday, a little more than three hours after its launch. The capsule atop a ...

In 2003, when the International Space Station had only been occupied for three years, NASA astronaut Donald Pettit took a gorgeous picture of the Earth’s atmosphere, with countless stars frozen in the ...

NASA astronaut Donald Pettit visited RIT’s Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science on Thursday, Jan. 9, while in town to give a lecture at the George Eastman House on his space photography.

MOSCOW — A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russians and an American blasted off Wednesday for an express trip to the International Space Station. The space capsule atop a towering rocket set off at 1623 ...

After beating out schools nationwide for a chance to call the International Space Station via the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station, students at Woodward Mill Elementary School in ...

CLIFTON — Astronauts say the darndest things. But as a group of students here recently discovered, the tricky part is pinning one down to answer questions. Their hard work paid off Wednesday afternoon ...

Four NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) sent a Thanksgiving message to Earth on Tuesday, November 25, ahead of the holiday on Thursday. Sunita Williams started by wishing a ...