Discover the incredible journey of Liberty Bell 7, Gus Grissom's historic space capsule that sank in the Atlantic Ocean and ...

While the United States has long been a leader in space exploration and commercial launches, Europe is now making significant strides of its own. Recently, a major milestone was achieved when Atmos ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Suciu covers trends in the world of aerospace and defense. During the original space race in the 1960s and 1970s, the United ...

On August 18, 1960, a Fairchild C-119J Flying Boxcar achieved a historic milestone by performing the first midair recovery of a space capsule returning from orbit. Operated by the United States Air ...

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — During the glory days of the U.S. space program in the 1960s and '70s, astronauts returning to Earth splashed down at sea in their capsules and were picked up by the Navy in a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first emergency operation in the history of China's human spaceflight program came to an end on Monday (Jan. 19) when an ...

NORFOLK, Virginia — The US Navy and NASA are testing out how they’ll recover astronauts once they splash down in the ocean following future missions to deep space, something a Navy crew hasn’t had to ...

India has successfully launched a rocket carrying a capsule recovery experiment to prepare for future human missions. “It was a textbook mission,” said Madhavan Nair, chairman of the Indian Space ...