Monday, July 20th marks 57 years since the moon landing, but on May 25th, 1961, Irish-American JFK shot for the moon for the ...

Russia launched two cosmonauts and a U.S. astronaut to the ISS from Baikonur, resuming crewed flights from a recently ...

The early 1960s was a period of rapid change. It set the stage for one of the most transformative decades […] ...

Yuri Gagarin's incredible feat was a defining moment in mankind's journey from a single planet species into the dawning age ...

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman flew private military jets over D.C. in a flyover Saturday — with Acting Attorney General ...

The following is the transcript of an interview with NASA administrator Jared Isaacman that aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on July 5, 2026.

What was once the most important potato field in the world belonged to the Nurskanova family in the town of Engels, in the Saratov region of southwestern Russia. The days moved unremarkably on the ...

STRENGTH. GARY GRUMBACH, NBC NEWS, WASHINGTON. AMERICA’S 250TH BIRTHDAY IS FIVE DAYS AWAY, AND TODAY WE LOOK AT ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ACHIEVEMENTS IN OUR NATION’S HISTORY THE SPACE RACE DEFINED A ...

In today’s newsletter: As July Fourth approaches, NBC News polled Americans on their views about flying the Stars and Stripes. The U.S. and Iran continued to trade strikes over the weekend, prompting ...

Two versions of history began when, one fall night in 1957, a two-stage rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and deposited a Soviet satellite called Sputnik into orbit around Earth. The ...

It’s boom time in the commercial space industry. NASA’s push to return to the moon and historic levels of investment in the private space sector have fueled a gold rush to the stars. It’s a space race ...

NASA officials have been shouting for years more money is needed to support infrastructure of a souped-up launch rate on the Space Coast, and now it has an audit confirming things are bad, and could ...