There haven't been any medical emergencies in space so far, mainly because missions were short throug...  ...y because missions were short through most of the space program's history. First aid on the ISS is superv...  ...would be no help outside the ship. And surgery in space p...

The Soviets sent the dog Laika and other animals i...  ...Soviets sent the dog Laika and other animals into space before humans. NASA sent chimpanzees into space to pave the way for astronauts. The French, a lit...  ...a little behind the superpowers, sent a cat into space .On...

There are plenty of problems associated with space travel and exploration , but there are also many minds working hard to so...  ...to do what we want to do -and now, so are private space exploration companies. For example, we may soon be able to se...  ...that’s just...

Forty-five years ago, we thought colonizing the mo...  ...g the moon was surely in our future. But once the space race was won, the moon was found to be not useful...  ...reviously at Neatorama) explains the economics of space colonization. The planned Mars mission looks diff...

NASA was formed in 1958 to replace the NACA (Natio...  ...ed many such films, TV shows, and videos to bring space close to all of us. Here’s a compressed loo...

If you’ve ever been to the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, you mig...  ...Miss Baker. She was one of many animals sent to space , but the first ever recovered alive by NASA. In 1...  ...iss Able, a rhesus monkey, were outfitted in tiny space suits and...

(Composite image by NASA/European Space Agency)Have you ever seen the aurora borealis or...  ...rth. Jupiter has them, too. NASA and the European Space Agency has recently been training the far-seeing...  ...has recently been training the far-seeing Hubble Space Telescope on nea...

(Photo: NASA)Scott Kelly, an American astronaut, r...  ...th after nearly a year on board the International Space Station. NASA physicians found that he's now 2 in...  ...escribes other effects of spending a long time in space , including a shrunken heart, difficulty with bala...  ...mass: Astronauts no longe...

(Artist's Interpretation by NASA/Mark A. Garlick)NASA's Kepler 2 telescope orbits the sun. It has the largest telescopic mirror outside of Earth orbit, which permits it to acquire detailed images of solar systems far, fa...

The Buran program was the Soviet Union's response...  ...gram was the Soviet Union's response to America's space shuttle program. It lagged far behind its US coun...