In October, if all goes to plan, the International Space Station (ISS) will celebrate 20 years of continuous human presence. That's two decades, 63 expeditions, and dozens of astronauts and cosmonauts ...

The ISS Phase I Shuttle-Mir program has reaffirmed what was learned on Skylab: that a manned space station can be surprisingly resilient in emergency situations. Much has been learned from the ...

A computer-generated video shows two of the SOviet Union's never-realized space projects, the Buran spaceplane and the Mir-2 ...

The Shuttle Docking Module was added to Mir during the second Shuttle/Mir docking mission, in late 1995. The first shuttle docking, in June 1995, required a spacewalk by Russian cosmonauts to move the ...

Half a century after Yuri Gagarin rocketed into space, giving the Soviet Union the distinction of sending the first human into orbit around the Earth, the Russians again are poised to dominate human ...

After a three-day struggle, the cosmonauts aboard Mir have fixed their automatic steering system, allowing NASA to press ahead with plans to send space shuttle Discovery on one last docking flight ...

In a close encounter of a new kind Dr. Valery Polyakov peers out of a window from the Mir core module as Discovery approaches within 37 ft. He is due to return to Earth on Mar. 22, after a record 438 ...

(CNN) -- In late May, if all goes according to plan, U.S. astronaut Andy Thomas will return to Earth from the Russian space station Mir. Thomas' landing will mark the close of American involvement in ...

NASA's space shuttle Discovery may be hanging up its wings after one last mission, but it leaves a long legacy behind that will be a challenge for any future spacecraft to match. Discovery is NASA's ...

Safe harbor: A Soyuz (foreground) and Progress supply vehicle docked to the International Space Station in August 2007. NASA How a space docking feels can depend on which side of the interface you’re ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. (January 22, 2009) – George “Pinky” Nelson, William M. Shepherd and James D. Wetherbee will join an elite group of American space heroes as they are inducted into the U.S.