These are some of the essential things to know about space travel, including the first human in space and the importance of spacesuits. Skip to content. Introducing the all-new Astronomy.com Forum!

A 150-acre plot of land on NAS-Corpus Christi's former Rodd Field became the site for Manned Space Flight Network Tracking Station No. 16, charged with monitoring NASA space missions by radio and ...

Space exploration in real life is just as mind-blowing as it looks in the movies. Here are 16 facts you didn't know about the final frontier.

From trouble sleeping to wimpy muscles, living on board the International Space Station really does a number on the human body. Get to know how your body could react to life in orbit with these 6 ...

11 Space Facts That Will Change Your Perspective. Story by Bethel Afful • 1w. Space is inaccessible to the vast majority of us, but it’s not as far away as you might think.

Take a look at 12 mind blowing facts about space that will change your world. ... Sound waves need a medium to travel through. Since there is no atmosphere in the vacuum of space, ...

Space! It's been called the "final frontier." It's powerful, infinite and some would say unknowable. But astronomer Dean Regas is not among them. As he says in the forward to his new "1,000 Facts ...

The mission stands today as an example of the dangers of space travel and of NASA's innovative minds working together to save lives on the fly. The Apollo 13 mission celebrated its 50th ...

December 1998 – The space shuttle Endeavour crew, on the STS-88 mission, attaches the Unity module to Zarya initiating the first ISS assembly sequence. June 1999 – The space shuttle Discovery ...

Several facts detail the scale and physical properties of celestial bodies, including travel times to the Moon and other stars, comparative sizes of planets and stars (e.g., Sun and Moon, Jupiter ...