'Star Trek' legend William Shatner actually visited space. It moved him deeply.
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with actor William Shatner, best known for starring in Star Trek, about actually visiting space in 2021.
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Former NASA astronaut Jim McDivitt, who led Gemini and Apollo missions, dies at 93
McDivitt commanded two early Gemini and Apollo missions in the 1960s that played a key role in preparing for the moon landing in 1969.
A black hole is releasing some strange burps, baffling scientists
Astronomers were stunned to find that the black hole was emitting energy, two years after it pulled apart a star that had come too close.
NASA officials say its asteroid defense test was a success
NASA says its mission to knock an asteroid off course — a test of planetary defense — succeeded beyond its expectations.
NASA says its asteroid defense test was a success
NASA smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in an attempt to throw it off course. The mission succeeded beyond expectations, officials said.
Nicole Mann will become first Native woman to go to space with latest SpaceX mission
Mann is a Marine Corps pilot, NASA astronaut and member of the Wailacki tribe of the Round Valley Indian Tribes.
'Mercury Rising' explores treacherous U.S. attempts to control space
Historian Jeff Shesol recalls the early days of the space program, when Cold War fears ruled and no one knew if John Glenn would survive America's first orbital flight. Originally broadcast June 2021.
Move over, Bruce Willis: NASA crashed into an asteroid to test planetary defense
NASA successfully crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in a test of planetary defense. Now it will determine whether the mission was able to alter the asteroid's course.
NASA spacecraft's asteroid crash offers insight in case one ever threatens Earth
At 7:14 p.m. Eastern on Sept. 26, a NASA spacecraft will crash into a small asteroid. The impact will test whether the space agency could deflect asteroids, in case one ever threatens Earth.
NASA plans to hit an asteroid with a spacecraft to change its course
NASA is getting ready to give an asteroid a little push, in a test intended to ready Earth's defenses against a potential asteroid approach.