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The unusual tools that an astronaut-turned-artist famously used to infuse not just what it felt to walk on the moon, but pieces of the moon itself, have now commanded auction results higher than some of the works they helped Alan Bean to create.
France has eight new postage stamps commemorating the sixth and latest generation of Europe's heavy-lift rocket. Each of the eight stamps depict the Ariane 6 at various stages of its launch using photographs from its missions since 2024.
A group of retired astronauts will land at college campuses and town halls this summer to promote their next mission. Astronauts for America's nonpartisan "Vote For Freedom" campaign by will see the space travelers promote the right to vote.
A dried out marker and a snapped off piece of plastic sold for $857,600 at a Sotheby's auction. What otherwise might be worthless bits of trash commanded the highest bids of the sale due to where the two items were 57 years ago on the Apollo 11 spacecraft.
With Barbie you can be anything, even an astronaut ... on a postage stamp. The U.S. Postal Service "honored the possibilities and hope" conveyed by Mattel's line of fashion dolls by issuing ten Barbie stamps, including one depicting Astronaut Barbie.
NASA has jumped on the collectible popcorn bucket bandwagon, or rather in this case, the bus. To mark the 60 years since its start as only a bus tour, the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida is offering its first popcorn bucket.
Swatch is celebrating the 57th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission with a new, limited edition gold model of its MoonSwatch. You can buy the new Mission to the Moon 1969 wristwatch if you can land one of the 1,969 spots available by applying online.
The first former SpaceX employee to fly into space as a NASA astronaut, Anil Menon, lifted off on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, flying with two cosmonauts, Pytor Dubrov and Anna Kikina, the latter the first to have flown on board a SpaceX Dragon capsule.
Aleksandr Aleksandrov, the second Bulgarian to fly into space and the first to live on a space station, has died at the age of 74. Aleksandrov flew on Soyuz TM-5, a visiting mission during the Mir space station's third long-duration expedition.
Two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut closed out a 241-day stay aboard the International Space Station early Sunday with a fiery plunge back to Earth and an on-target touchdown on the broad steppe of Kazakhstan.
The City of Biloxi on Saturday dedicated the area surrounding the Fred Haise statue along Highway 90 as the "Fred Haise Landing," honoring the Apollo 13 astronaut and Biloxi native.
Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex officials are planning long-term upgrades over a 15-year span at the Apollo/Saturn V Center to accommodate thousands of additional rocket launch spectators, NASA permitting records show.
PJ Harvey is sending a message from deep space. The British singer-songwriter has unveiled "Voyager," a sweeping new track inspired by NASA's legendary Voyager probes, which were launched in 1977 and continue their journeys nearly five decades later.
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