Astronaut Barry "Butch" Wilmore announced his retirement Wednesday after 25 years with NASA and serving as a U.S. Navy test ...

The astronaut is stepping away from NASA shortly after returning from a troubled test flight that left him aboard the ISS ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - Butch Wilmore, a Tennessee native and a graduate of both the University of Tennessee and Tennessee ...

"His lasting legacy of fortitude will continue to impact and inspire the Johnson workforce, future explorers, and the nation for generations." ...

Russia’s space chief has visited the United States to discuss cooperation between Moscow and Washington on the International Space Station and lunar research with NASA’s acting chief, the first such f ...

The Trump administration is moving to shut down two NASA missions that monitor a potent greenhouse gas and plant health, ...

Wilmore earned a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from Tennessee Tech and a master’s degree in aviation systems from the University of Tennessee.

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Dr. Anil Menon will head to the space station on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft in June 2026 as a flight engineer and ...

Roscosmos cosmonaut and TASS special correspondent Alexey Zubritsky clarified that, in addition to himself, the Russian segment's crew members as well as NASA astronauts had their names officially mar ...

On Monday, in one of his first official tasks, NASA Acting Administrator Sean Duffy signed a new "directive" on commercial ...

NASA must confront its budget pressures, reduce bureaucracy, and focus on mission-driven culture in order to achieve its goals of returning to the Moon and going to Mars, while also developing a ...