Mark Kelly, a Democratic senator from Arizona, was recently censured. Prior to his career in elected office, Kelly was a NASA astronaut.

Four astronauts are about to become the first humans to venture near the moon in more than half a century since NASA's iconic Apollo era ended.

Astronaut salaries look surprisingly normal on paper. However, the risks, training, and pressure behind that pay are anything but.

As NASA prepared astronauts for its second mission into space, National Geographic had exclusive behind-the-scenes access for the intense and out-of-this-world training these pioneers underwent. Spirit of the 20th century: Space-suited astronaut Frank ...