When Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human into space on April 12, 1961, the American space program rose to the occasion, and less than a month later, astronaut Alan Shepard became the ...

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Footage released by NASA on Wednesday reveals striking green aurora ribbons illuminating our planet. The timelapse captured from the International Space Station shows the ribbons shimmering above ...

The two-day countdown test at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida included filling up the tanks of the giant Space Launch ...