Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On April 7, 1983, astronauts took the first spacewalk outside of a space shuttle during mission STS-6. This was the maiden voyage ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On February 7, 1984, NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless became the first person to go on a spacewalk without a tether. McCandless was ...

On May 7, 1992, the space shuttle Endeavour launched on its first flight. Endeavour was the fifth and last space shuttle that ...

Houston, July 30 - Two astronauts floated out of shuttle Discovery for the mission's first spacewalk Saturday and tested repair techniques developed after the Columbia tragedy more than two years ago.

NASA space shuttle astronauts Tom Akers and Joe Tanner, who flew into orbit four times each, will be inducted into the U.S.

NASA astronauts Tom Akers and Joe Tanner, both four-time space shuttle veterans, and two of the few people to ever touch the ...

Astronauts on the space shuttle Endeavour and International Space Station (ISS) won’t have to do a focused inspection of the orbiter’s heat shield, but engineers at Johnson Space Center in Houston ...

Led by commander Mark Polansky, the astronauts will run through emergency escapes from the launch pad, practise landing on Kennedy Space Center's runway and learn how to put out fires on the shuttle.

On April 7, 1983, astronauts took the first spacewalk outside of a space shuttle during mission STS-6. This was the maiden voyage of the space shuttle Challenger. The goal of this mission was to ...