WATCH: The first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, shouted, “Hey, sky, take off your hat; I’m on my way!” Tereshkova’s flight lasted nearly 71 hours. (Soviet Space Pro ...

Blue Origin will make history when it sends the first person who uses a wheelchair past the Kármán line, an internationally recognized boundary of space that's 62 miles above Earth. On its next ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket successfully returned to flight March 11, more than 10 months after the rocket’s previous launch failed.

Blue Origin aims to fly another set of space tourists to suborbital space aboard its New Shepard rocket next week. The company’s NS-37 mission is targeting a launch date of December 18. It will send ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michaela "Michi" Benthaus poses inside a mockup of the New Shepard capsule. Benthaus is scheduled to launch on Blue Origin's next ...

When she was growing up, Sophie Adenot plastered her childhood bedroom with posters of rockets launching from Cape Canaveral. On Friday, she blasted off from that very launchpad, fulfilling her ...

TIME Studios is producing the Netflix documentary series Countdown: Inspiration 4 Mission to Space, starting Sept. 6. It’s been 52 years since the artist Jeff Gates made a reservation to go to the ...

NASA and Boeing are also reducing the number of astronaut flights Boeing's Starliner will fly to the International Space Station. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blue Origin will make history when it sends the first person who uses a wheelchair past the Kármán line, an internationally ...

Update: The New Shepard rocket launched on Saturday. Blue Origin said it scrubbed Thursday's launch after it "observed an issue with our built-in checks prior to the flight." Michaela “Michi” Benthaus ...