Two Japanese astronauts, each with flights upcoming to the International Space Station (ISS), now have their own personal patches celebrating their respective missions. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut and ISS Expedition 22 flight...

What do you give to the person who has everything, including a paid (to the tune of $200,000) ticket to space? A jacket apparently, or so was the gift chosen for the 250 "Future Astronauts" (and 550 or so other guests and media) who gathered on Monday...

The first spacecraft to be built for commercial space tourism was revealed Monday in the Mojave desert to an audience of hundreds, including paid ticket holders who will be among the first to fly on the suborbital vehicle. SpaceShipTwo, which evolved...

NASA's contest for employees to design an emblem for the end of the shuttle program came to its own end Tuesday as the deadline for entries expired. According to NASA, nearly 100 patch ideas were received, including some submitted by astronauts. A...

Sapporo Breweries announced Thursday that its first "space beer" will be sold through a lottery to Japanese residents age 20 or older. Brewed from the fourth generation of "Haruna Nijo" malting barley cultivated by Sapporo and then flown to the...