Nine months is a long time to be in orbit. But Butch Williams and Suni Wilmore aren't alone in facing extraordinary circumstances in space. Here are some of the "final frontier's" most memorable ...

Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut, believed in UFOs and spoke about astronauts encountering unexplained phenomena. His wife ...

Apollo astronauts “had to limit the amount of material ... co-founder and CEO of For All Moonkind, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting lunar landing sites. Beyond these known objects, any ...

LISTER, mounted below Blue Ghost’s lower deck, measures the flow of heat from the moon's interior with a sophisticated ...

Nasa astronauts were used to risks ... by many to be the most courageous and bold space flight of them all." Whether or not Apollo 8 won the Cold War, it certainly sent a clear message around ...

Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke took this photo of ... STS-133, in 2011 — all the while spending 91 days in space during her career. She also made the first painting in space.

The Apollo astronauts had one shot to fire their Lunar ... they had almost used up almost all their fuel. But this was ...

Strange as it may sound, where the astronauts sat (or “sat” – the crew actually stood) in the Apollo Lunar Module may have profoundly impacted the way ... The commanders returned from the missions ...

HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Frank Borman — a former NASA astronaut Col. who commandeered the Apollo 8 to the moon — has died at the age of 95. Borman died on Nov. 7 in Billings ...

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