NASA

Two senators from Texas want to move the Space Shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian in Virginia to Houston. NPR's David Folkenflik talks with activist Joe Stief of the group Keep The Shuttle.

NASA has named the crew of next year's Artemis III mission. The four astronauts will orbit the Earth and practice rendezvous techniques and other tasks to simulate skills needed for a lunar landing.

Coming on the heels of the historic mission around the moon and back earlier this year—which brought the first woman in lunar territory—NASA has picked a racially diverse albeit all-male crew for next year’s mission in low Earth orbit.

A scientific instrument on the Voyager 1 has been shut off to conserve power as the probe continues its interstellar exploration.

The Artemis II astronauts are readjusting to life on Earth after their historic mission around the moon.

As NASA’s Artimis ll is orbiting around the moon and will soon head back to Earth, there are lots of questions about what is next for humanity and space exploration. A permanent moon base is planned and then explorations of Mars. But how realistic are these ambitious plans?

Retired Air Force colonel and NASA astronaut Eileen Collins and filmmaker Hannah Berryman talk about the new documentary Spacewoman.

The mission marks the first time in more than 50 years that humans are attempting to travel to the moon.

As the United States’ space program is heading back to the moon — we hear from Eileen Collins — a retired NASA astronaut. Collins was the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle and the first to command a Space Shuttle mission. A new documentary “Spacewoman” tells the story of this NASA pioneer. She tells us about her time in space and what the future might hold for space exploration.

NASA's Artemis II mission lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 6:35 p.m. Eastern Wednesday. The mission aims to send four astronauts around the moon on a roughly 10-day journey.