NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins has made history as the first Black woman to command a crew to orbit, leading a SpaceX mission that also established a new American speed record for reaching the International Space Station. SpaceX’s Crew-13 mission launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on October...
Frank Borman: NASA astronaut dies aged 95
Astronaut Frank Borman, who commanded NASA's first Apollo mission to the moon, has died aged 95. Borman commanded Apollo 8's historic Christmas 1968 flight, which saw the spacecraft circle the moon 10 times - paving the way for the following year's lunar landing. He died on Tuesday 7 November in...