starting at 9 a.m. new at noon a veteran astronaut from iowa has been inducted into the u.s. astronaut hall of fame. peggy whitson is from beaconsfield.

Two veteran astronauts were inducted May 31 into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame — and one of them had to miss the induction ceremony as she's preparing to launch on yet another mission.

Update for 10:40 p.m. ET on June 10: SpaceX announced on Tuesday evening that it has delayed the planned June 11 launch of the Ax-4 private astronaut mission to the ISS due to a liquid oxygen leak ...

Dr. Bernard Harris Jr., a decorated astronaut who became the first Black person to perform a spacewalk in 1995, is being inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame on May 31.

NPR's Debbie Elliott talks with Taylor Jenkins Reid about the lives of the first women astronauts as imagined in her new novel, "Atmosphere." ...

From astronaut life to motherhood, Gerardi shares her life online. Her videos document everything from her space research on biomedical and thermodynamic fluids to trips with her mom and daughter ...

NASA astronauts on International Space Station capture images of lightning from space. The images McClain and Ayers shared show electrostatic discharges – in other words, lightning – from ...

The U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame just held its annual induction ceremony, but one of this year's two honorees could not attend for a reason unique to all past enshrinements.

Chosen as an astronaut candidate in 1996, Whitson’s first trip to space was in 2002 on Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-111 for her first of four stays on board the International Space Station.

Bernard Harris, the first Black astronaut to perform a spacewalk, took center stage at the 2025 U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame induction ceremony on May 31, where he received his induction medal and ...

Ishaan Patel, a rising University of Virginia fourth-year student, has joined the orbit of Astronaut Scholars. NASA’s original Mercury 7 astronauts launched the program in 1984, and astronauts from ...