A man in a puffy white astronaut suit floats in space above planet Earth far below. An American flag patch is visible on his left arm. Text reads: On June 3, 1965, astronaut Ed White became the first ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A 59-year-old Russian cosmonaut became the world's oldest spacewalker Friday, joining a much younger cosmonaut's son for a little maintenance work outside the International ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Billionaire spacewalker Jared Isaacman urged senators on Wednesday to take swift action on his bid to lead NASA, after being yanked and then renominated by President Donald ...

The U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame added two more to its ranks Saturday, inducting a space shuttle commander who flew two orbiters' maiden flights and a spacewalker who set a duration record working ...

Italy, you have a spacewalker. European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano became the first Italian ever to walk in space today (July 9) outside of the International Space Station. Parmitano, a ...

Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, the first person to conduct a spacewalk, passed away on 11 October, aged 85. On 18 March 1965, Alexei Leonov became the first person to float freely outside a ...

Astronaut Steve Bowen, a five-time spacewalker, will replace Tim Kopra as an extravehicular activity crewmember on the upcoming STS-133 assembly mission to the International Space Station. Kopra ...

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