They may not have the traditional fixings for a Thanksgiving dinner, but the seven astronauts returning to Earth onboard space shuttle Atlantis are set to show their thanks with a memento-stuffed locker for those who made their mission a success.

A member of the first three-person space crew whose flight was onboard a vehicle he helped design, cosmonaut Konstantin Feoktistov passed away at age 83 on Saturday, Nov. 21, according to a statement by the Russian space agency Roscosmos.

The camera that took many of the Hubble Telescope's most famous photographs and the "contact lenses" that focused its flawed mirror debuted at the National Air and Space Museum along with the first phase of a new interactive gallery devoted to humans...

With just six space shuttle flights remaining, NASA has invited space program workers to design an insignia marking the end of the shuttle era. The winning design will be flown on the shuttle before the fleet retires.

Hundreds of home videos along with thousands of miniature banners have been stowed aboard NASA's first test flight of a rocket designed to replace the space shuttle. Their journey onboard the Ares I-X will be lofted by a booster assembled from parts...