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John Young was the only NASA astronaut to go into space as part of the Gemini, Apollo and space shuttle programs, and the first to fly into space six times. He was the ninth man to walk on the moon.

Hey it's Jacksonian from the Smithsonian. Just the other week,  I took a trip back to my alma mater of Wapato High School. Back when I was walking those hallowed halls. The teachers always told us to dream big and reach for the stars! ( evidently, I did more dreaming than reaching...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Ah, there's nothing like a blast of fresh, frigid air to welcome you back to the planet after nearly a year cooped up in space. That's the word from astronaut Scott Kelly, NASA's space-endurance champ. Kel...

HOUSTON (AP) — The new movie "The Martian" is getting a thumbs-up from real-life NASA engineers. In the film, Matt Damon plays an astronaut accidentally stranded on the Red Planet. Ellen Ochoa is the director of the Johnson Space Center and a former astronaut...

WASHINGTON (AP) — It's a spaced-out Kickstarter project. The National Air and Space Museum wants to raise a-half million bucks to conserve the spacesuit Neil Armstrong wore on the moon. The campaign began yesterday, marking 46 years since that first moonwalk in 1969...

El Nino has strengthened steadily during the past month, approaching the “strong category”. El Nino is so strong this go round that it could wind up be the strongest El Nino event in 50 years. El Nino rarely peeks in the summer months, making it possible to see it last through the end of the year...

The folks at NASA have released some of the most brilliant pictures of our planet that most of us will ever see. Take a look here!

Even though the space shuttle program is over, and the United States now relies on Russia to get American astronauts to the International Space Station, it doesn't mean that NASA is not still exploring the cosmos.

Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images The first person to set foot on the Earth’s moon, Neil Armstrong passed away today (Aug. 25) due to complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures. He was 82.

Seattle (AP) - The last big piece of the space shuttle trainer is schedule to arrive at Seattle's museum of flight on Thursday morning. NASA's special super guppy plane will be delivering the front section of the payload bay at Boeing field...