Last year, two American astronauts wound up stuck in space for nine months after a test flight with Boeing ran into problems and Nasa determined it was too risky for the astronauts to come back to ...

A veteran NASA astronaut who flew to orbit more ... in 2003 when he served as science officer during the six-month Expedition 6 at the space station. Previously, he also served as a flight ...

While Perry may have viewed the gesture as a joyful moment, the public has slammed it as the 'ultimate insult' to NASA ... astronaut Sunita Williams and her team, who were stuck in space for 9 months.

But Nasa’s oldest serving astronaut Don Pettit became a septuagenarian while hurtling towards the Earth in a spacecraft to wrap up a seven-month mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS).