This dynamic button celebrated NASA astronaut John H. Glenn Jr.'s February 20, 1962 flight, which made him the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth. The shifting images created using a ...

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The first crewed New Shepard launch carried Bezos, his brother, and the oldest and youngest people to ever go to space: 82-year-old aviation pioneer Wally Funk, and an 18-year-old Dutch student.

The space agency pushed forward with Project Mercury, making astronaut John Glenn the first American to orbit Earth in February 1962. In May 1963 Gordon Cooper completed a 22-orbit flight, a ...

"New Glenn's second mission will take place NET [no earlier than] August 15th," Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp said via X on ...

CALIFORNIA — The four-person civilian Fram2 mission returned home in a splash down off the coast of California on Friday after being the first humans to orbit Earth's polar regions. Riding in ...

The Fram2 will be the first time humans will orbit Earth's polar regions after it took off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Monday, March 31, 2025.

Mars, for example, is tilted by about 25 degrees, similar to Earth. Its orbit is much more elliptical, however, and that dominates the analemma, making it more teardrop-shaped.

The first 27 Kuiper satellites were deployed to orbit on April 28, 2025, following a launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. That's also the location for the next mission to get ...

The first 27 Kuiper satellites were deployed to orbit on April 28, 2025, following a launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. That's also the location for the next mission to get ...