While the commercial Polaris Dawn crew geared up for the first non-government spacewalk, a NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts took off on a more traditional spaceflight Wednesday, launching to ...

MOSCOW (AP) — A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russians and an American from Silverton, Oregon docked at the International Space Station on Wednesday, a little more than three hours after its launch.

In 2003, when the International Space Station had only been occupied for three years, NASA astronaut Donald Pettit took a gorgeous picture of the Earth’s atmosphere, with countless stars frozen in the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Donald Pettit, NASA’s oldest active-duty astronaut and Oregon native, is headed to space again. Pettit, 69, is from Silverton, Oregon, and this spaceflight, which took off from ...

MOSCOW (AP) — A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russians and an American docked at the International Space Station on Wednesday, a little more than three hours after its launch. The capsule atop a ...

Ever wondered what the Holy Kaaba looks like from space? A stunning photograph captured by Donald Pettit, a Nasa astronaut, ...

NASA astronaut and Oregon State University alumnus Donald Pettit, who spent almost six months aboard the International Space Station after the space shuttle Columbia tragedy, will be the keynote ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space station astronauts floated into the Dragon on Saturday, a day after its heralded arrival as the world's first commercial supply ship. NASA astronaut Donald Pettit, the ...

NASA astronaut Donald Pettit visited RIT’s Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science on Thursday, Jan. 9, while in town to give a lecture at the George Eastman House on his space photography.

GWINNETT COUNTY, GA — After beating out schools nationwide for a chance to call the International Space Station via the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station, students at Woodward Mill ...

CLIFTON — Astronauts say the darndest things. But as a group of students here recently discovered, the tricky part is pinning one down to answer questions. Their hard work paid off Wednesday afternoon ...

Four NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) sent a Thanksgiving message to Earth on Tuesday, November 25, ahead of the holiday on Thursday. Sunita Williams started by wishing a ...