Robert Z. Pearlman

Sixty years after Yuri Gagarin became the first person to fly into space, a new symbol seeks to unite the hundreds of people who have followed his trajectory.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has selected two new trainees for its burgeoning astronaut corps, including its first female candidate.

Casio is ready to launch a limited edition timepiece commemorating the 40th anniversary of NASA's first space shuttle launch.

Three astronauts embarked for the International Space Station just three days shy of the 60th anniversary of the first human spaceflight. The trio launched on Soyuz MS-18, named the "Yu.A. Gagarin."

An Apollo-era NASA astronaut who was the first person born in Australia to train for a spaceflight, Philip Chapman died at age 86, having never made it into orbit.

On May 21, 1983, it had been more than a decade since astronauts had walked on the moon. In the alternate history of "For All Mankind," though, humans were still on the lunar surface.

The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation has launched a new program to connect people directly to astronauts in a new monthly club.

Lego designer Milan Madge reveals the hidden details of the new NASA Space Shuttle Discovery set with the Hubble Space Telescope.

A former Space Camp counselor and an "analog astronaut" whose father tracked Apollo experiments deployed on the moon have won seats aboard the first all-civilian spaceflight.

It's called the Gagarin.

A small swatch of fabric is set to take flight on a first-of-its-kind aircraft more than a century, and a world away, from where it first made history. The strip of muslin,

Once described as the most complex flying machine ever built, comprised of more than 2.5 million moving parts, you can now assemble your own model of NASA's space shuttle using just 2,354 pieces.

Legendary flight director Glynn S. Lunney, who led Mission Control during some of NASA's most challenging and triumphant hours, has died at the age of 84.

A Soyuz spacecraft moved to a new docking port at the International Space Station on Friday (March 19) to make room for an incoming crew next month.

For more than 50 years, NASA astronauts have relied on duct tape as a fix-it-all for everything from a lunar rover on the moon to an air leak on board the International Space Station.

Russia's only woman cosmonaut, Anna Kikina, inspires one-of-a-kind Barbie doll.

For the first time in years, Russia's Soyuz-2 launch vehicle will lift off with a new look, inspired by the rocket that put the world's first human into space.

The moon may be devoid of humans (for now), but there is plenty of humanity to be found strewn across the lunar surface.

The first commercial lunar landing now has a mission patch.

When Andrew Chaikin's "A Man on the Moon" was first published in 1994, a quarter century had passed since the first astronauts walked on the lunar surface.

"Good Night Oppy" will tell the story of the connection that grew between the Opportunity rover and the people who created it.