Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronauts, from left, Anna Menon, Scott Poteet, Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis arrive at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on ...

The Hubble Space Telescope was carried to space inside the space shuttle Discovery and then released into low-Earth orbit. The James Webb Space Telescope was squeezed inside the nose cone of an Ariane ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Dr. Bernard Harris is a medical doctor, astronaut, and venture capitalist. In ...

Experience working on the International Space Station in this memoir excerpt from a space shuttle astronaut Tom Jones Astronaut Tom Jones waving during one of his three spacewalks on Space Shuttle ...

A tech billionaire has become the first layperson to perform a space walk. Hundreds of miles above Earth, Jared Isaacman took part in an intricate performance of science and engineering that often ...

Hampered last month by bad weather, launch tower problems, and issues with its ride from SpaceX, the Polaris Dawn mission is at last on its way. One of the most ambitious space tourism missions in ...

Polaris Dawn in polar orbit has the first successful commercial space walk. It is an altitude three times higher than the International Space Station. “SpaceX, back at home we all have a lot of work ...

You're currently following this author! Click to unsubscribe from email alerts. Jared Isaacman's second trip to space felt different. The billionaire CEO of the payments company Shift4 made history ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Billionaire Jared Isaacman could make history for all the right reasons during his Polaris Dawn mission when the hatch opens on a SpaceX Crew Dragon and he ventures out into the ...

You're currently following this author! Click to unsubscribe from email alerts. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Dr. Bernard Harris, author of "Embracing Infinite Possibilities: ...