Popular Science reports that we've lost 18 people in space, including 14 NASA astronauts. These fatalities have resulted in the entire crew being killed, meaning no 'rescue mission' has ever had ...

Although three other U.S. astronauts had been killed in airplane crashes and several Russian cosmonauts were rumored to have perished, the deaths were the first to be recorded in man's attempt to ...

NASA confirmed in a report that Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano almost died during a spacewalk outside the International ...

On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded after it was launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida in just 73 seconds which claimed the lives of seven astronauts.

If more thrusters malfunction, the astronauts could be left adrift in space, with only 96 hours of oxygen and power available to attempt a safe return. NASA may opt to use a SpaceX Crew Dragon ...

“This may, therefore, make existing exercise countermeasures more effective at keeping astronauts healthy without the need for a lunar Wall of Death.” ...