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James Alton McDivitt lived a full and long life and today is celebrated, as he sadly passed away at the age of 93. James was a test pilot, United States Air Force pilot, aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut who flew in the Gemini and Apollo programs and grew up in Kalamazoo.

Look to the eastern sky Saturday night.

Michigan native Fiona Turett has been named as a flight director for NASA. She says her love for space was sparked as a kid in middle school.

According to People, the crew of the SpaceX launch have brought a friend with them to the International Space Station: a Baby Yoda toy.  

SpaceX launched astronauts into space this past Saturday on U.S. soil for the first time in nine years. The astronauts arrived at the Space Station, safely, on Sunday morning. Source: Twitter

When most people get up in the morning, the first thing they do is hit facebook or some news outlet to see what's happening in the world. I hit Facebook too but the first thing I look at is NASA's page or I go directly to their website to what's happening in the world of space exploration.

Tomorrow (February 22nd) at 1 p.m. NASA are planning to hold a news conference in Washington where they'll present new findings on planets that orbit stars other than our sun, known as exoplanets.

I'm the first to admit that every time I carve pumpkins for Halloween, they always turn out looking like crap.

Earlier this morning astronaut Scott Kelly arrived in Houston after nearly a year-long mission in space. The one-year mission was designed to help NASA better understand what happens to an astronaut's physical and mental health during an extremely long stay in a micro-gravity environment.

If you have ever gotten really stoned and wondered what Michigan would look like from space, well, today your THC-induced curiosity can rest.

A NASA rocket filled with supplies for the International Space Station exploded during it's launch Tuesday (10/28/14) evening. The rocket was unmanned but there was major damage to the launch facilities.

As a kid I always dreamed of being able to go into space and now thanks to NASA's live-streaming views of earth, I can come a little closer to those dreams. The project, known as the High Definition Earth Viewing experiment, aims to test how cameras perform in the space environment.