NASA Remembers Retired Astronaut, US Air Force Pilot Joe Engle
Portrait of retired NASA astronaut Joe Engle wearing flight suit in front of an X-15 fighter circa 1963. Retired NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force...
Category : Former Astronauts
The First Space Shuttle
NASA In this image from April 12, 1981, the first space shuttle, STS-1, launches from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida with NASA astronauts John...
NASA Administrator Pays Tribute to Space Pioneer Thomas Stafford
(1966) — Portrait of astronaut Thomas P. Stafford, wearing his spacesuit. Credits: NASA The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Monday’s...
Apollo 9 Crew Comes Home
NASA Fifty-five years ago today, NASA astronauts James A. McDivitt, David R. Scott, and Russell L. Schweickart splashed down 4.5 nautical miles from the USS...
Apollo 9 Astronaut David Scott’s Spacewalk
NASA/Russell L. Schweickart Astronaut David R. Scott, command module pilot for the Apollo 9 Earth-orbital mission, stands in the command module’s open hatch during his...
Astronaut Charles Bolden Preps for Deorbit
STS-60 commander Charles F. Bolden is seen at the commander’s station on the forward flight deck of the space shuttle Discovery. He is wearing the...
NASA Remembers Trailblazing Astronaut, Scientist Mary Cleave
NASA Astronaut Mary L. Cleave. April 8, 1985 NASA Retired NASA astronaut Mary Cleave, a veteran of two NASA spaceflights, died Nov. 27. She was...
A Space Station Thanksgiving
NASA / Mike Hopkins NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins (left) and Rick Mastracchio, show off their Thanksgiving meal in the Unity node of the International Space...
Celebrating Astronaut Alan Shepard’s 100th Birthday
Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., attired in his Mercury pressure suit, poses for a photo on May 5, 1961, prior to his launch in a...
NASA Administrator Honors Life of Apollo Astronaut Frank Borman
Former NASA astronaut Col. (ret.) Frank Borman The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on the passing of former NASA astronaut Col....
