Mike Massimino is a retired NASA astronaut and veteran of two Space Shuttle missions.

Just before my final, 2001 shuttle mission to help build the International Space Station, I asked the NASA chief of human spaceflight when he thought we’d return to the moon. "Oh, probably not until ...

NASA managers are meeting Wednesday to consider a new launch date for the space shuttle Discovery's much-delayed mission to the International Space Station. The U.S. space agency has pushed back the ...

The crew lifted off around 6:35 p.m. ET from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. On the 10-day mission, they could travel farther from Earth than any humans have gone before. NASA plans to continue ...

NASA astronauts design mission patches to tell the story of each shuttle mission, a tradition dating back to the 1960s. The mission patch for the Artemis II mission was revealed in 2025, with a ...

NASA says it will try to launch Atlantis on the first space shuttle mission of the year in early June, almost three months later than originally planned, so that technicians can finish repairing its ...

If he makes the cut, Cameron Jones will become the seventh University of Illinois alum to earn the title of NASA astronaut. Here’s a glance at the six others to date, ranked in order of time spent in ...