In the summer of 1973, astronauts Alan Bean, Jack LMA, and Dr. Owen Garriott conducted a nearly two-month mission aboard ...

Here on Earth, we tend to take showers for granted. But for astronauts stationed in space, taking a quick rinse—much like cooking, eating, using the toilet, and just about every other mundane, ...

The Oklahoma History Center Museum (OHCM) will close its exhibit "Launch to Landing: Oklahomans and Space" on March 31.The ...

UTD Prof. Wei Li recently received an Early Stage Innovations grant from NASA to support his study of welding on the surface of the moon. His work could lead to making space travel safer and enable ...

Dr. Lucas worked on the design of Skylab, which became the first U.S. space station when it was launched into orbit in 1973, before he was named the Marshall center’s director the next year.

According to the Oklahoma History Center, the highlight of the exhibit is the Skylab 4 Apollo Command Module (CM-118), which carried astronauts Gerald Carr (commander), Edward Gibson (science ...

William R. Lucas, a NASA rocket scientist who helped shape the nation's first satellite as well as its first space station, and who later shouldered part of the blame for the 1986 explosion that ...

Ham’s mission was particularly groundbreaking because he demonstrated that primates could perform tasks in space, proving that human astronauts could do the ... spiders named Arabella and Anita aboard ...

Marshall Space Flight Center is celebrating its 65-year legacy of ingenuity and service to the U.S. space program – and the ...

But did you know that astronauts actually shrink when they return to Earth? This is just one of the many strange effects space has on the human body. From changes in bone density to altered vision ...