This year is the 25th anniversary of humans inhabiting the International Space Station. A new PBS documentary looks at how the ISS was built and the challenges of surviving in outer space.

Space travel should by rights make for rocket-fuelled television, but documentaries on the subject too often veer into soul-numbing technobabble. That sad fate is happily avoided by the absorbing Once ...

Sally Ride was the first American woman to go to space back in 1983. And for a while, it seemed like she was the most famous person on Earth and in space. She dominated headlines. She was all over TV.

There is only one way to experience lunar gravity while still on Earth, or rather a few thousand feet above its surface: on a ...

"The first 20 women or so ... couldn't even imagine the reality or the possibility of becoming an astronaut except as they ...