Franklin Chang-Díaz remembers the day his mother told him that a new star soared in the sky. The year was 1957, and the Soviets had just launched a basketball-size satellite named Sputnik, which ...

This is one for the history books. A baptism by fire crash course tutorial in space exploration, life skills and public speaking for grade 11 Cabecar high school students ( for whom Spanish is a ...

WEBSTER, Texas -- Franklin Chang Diaz made history as NASA's first Latino astronaut. Now he is revolutionizing space travel in his mission to open the sky to everyone. After retiring from the space ...

NASA has signed an agreement with Houston-based Ad Astra Rocket Co. that paves the way for commercialization of a promising advanced plasma rocket system that has evolved over the past 25 years. The ...

Ad Astra Rocket Facility, 2 p.m., Friday, June 22, 2012, Webster, Texas A promising rocket technology for a manned mission to Mars is the VASIMR advanced plasma propulsion system being developed in ...

This article is part of Texas Monthly’s special fiftieth-anniversary issue. Read about the other icons that have defined Texas since 1973. Franklin Chang Díaz, a member of the U.S. Astronaut Hall of ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, June 13 -- Two spacewalking astronauts performed surgery on the international space station's $600 million robot arm today, replacing one of its seven joints to fix what amounted to a ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Two spacewalking astronauts ventured outside Sunday and hung a giant handgrip and cosmic-debris shields on the international space station. It was the first of three ...