Sixty-four years after the first American to fly into space sought permission to pee in his suit, a new campaign is pairing ...

In 1988, NASA started making MAGs — Maximum Absorbency Garments — for all its astronauts, said Kiona N. Smith, author of Peeing and Pooping in Space. The MAG uses a highly absorbent polymer compound ...

From test pilots like Chuck Yeager to astronauts like Neil Armstrong, David Clark suits have been a constant in American aerospace. The company built Gemini spacesuits, Apollo gear, U-2 spy plane ...

Paul Van Hoeydonck originally wanted the statuette to celebrate "humanity rising into space." A Belgian sculptor credited with the "Fallen Astronaut" figurine left on the surface of the moon in ...

May 5 (UPI) --President Donald Trump on Monday celebrated National Astronaut Day on the 64th anniversary of Alan Shepard becoming the first American to go into space. On May 5, 1961, Shepard's Freedom ...

A tense moment for a NASA astronaut was captured after she noticed a ‘slice’ in her suit’s glove. The incident occurred during an exceedingly rare spacewalk that took place on May 1st. Two NASA ...

It's been more than six decades since Alan Shepard launched on his famous suborbital flight. What would think of the U.S. space program today?

Since then, Ayers has spent 50 days in space, astronauting. This included a spacewalk last week, her first, alongside veteran astronaut Anne McClain. As they returned to the airlock, the Earth ...

(NASA/Bill Ingalls) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Fresh from space, NASA’s oldest full-time astronaut said Monday that weightlessness made him feel decades younger, with everyday aches and pains ...

Chris Hadfield is glad his version of 'Space Oddity' "put a big smile" on David Bowie's face. The 65-year-old astronaut and spaceship commander performed his own "optimistic" rendition of Bowie's ...