From 2005 until 2011, a Space Shuttle would have to perform a backflip, called the R-bar Pitch Manoeuvre or Rendezvous Pitch Manoeuvre (RPM), to allow the crew aboard the International Space ...

With 39th President Jimmy Carter passing away at the age of 100, we are revisiting this story of how he unexpectedly saved the space shuttle. We’d been chatting for the better part of two hours ...

China said two of its astronauts spent nine hours outside the Tiangong Space Station. The longest previous spacewalk, by Americans, was eight hours and 56 minutes. New findings suggest that an ...

Space can be a wondrous place, and we've got the pictures to prove it! Take a look at our favorite space pictures here, and if you're wondering what happened to today in space history don't miss ...

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