Last week, four commercial astronauts boarded a SpaceX capsule for a pioneering spaceflight that was years in the making. And though the astronauts landed safely Sunday off the coast of Florida, the ...

The mission was previously delayed over a ground-side helium leak. Embarking on a new chapter of private space exploration, the Polaris Dawn mission is poised to make history by launching four private ...

The 75th anniversary of the founding of the Pittsfield Auxiliary of the McAll Mission was observed Tuesday when more than 100 women of local Protestant churches met at the First Church of Christ, ...

When the Dragon spacecraft launched Tuesday atop a Falcon 9 rocket, the vehicle carried the private astronauts farther into space than humans have reached in more than half a century. Two days after ...