Despite their best efforts, engineers at SpaceX won’t be able to fix the leaky toilet on board the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft in time for the NASA astronauts set to launch on it imminently.

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The astronauts who will depart the International Space Station as early as this weekend will be stuck using diapers on the way home because of their capsule’s broken toilet ...

NASA astronaut Megan McArthur described the situation Friday as “suboptimal" but manageable. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The astronauts who will depart the International Space Station on Sunday will be ...

The most talked-about element of Noah Hawley’s astronaut drama “Lucy in the Sky” is the one thing that’s not in the movie. The film, which opens October 4 from Fox Searchlight, recreates the tawdry ...

A NASA astronaut stationed aboard the International Space Station acknowledged this week that a design flaw in the toilet built into SpaceX’s Crew Dragon module will force she and her colleagues to ...

It was a mission-critical element: the size of NASA astronauts' manhood. Seriously. The Houston Chronicle resurrects the fascinating historical tidbit by way of the Science Channel's Moon Machines ...

HAWTHORNE — A four-member crew of astronauts that has been living on the International Space Station since April could return to Earth as soon as this weekend, but the trip aboard the SpaceX Crew ...

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly begins his first-ever spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Oct. 28, 2015. Before NASA shot astronaut Scott Kelly into orbit for the first time in 1999, he ...

NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak lifted off from Kennedy Space Center aboard space shuttle Discovery last July 4. Like all shuttle astronauts, she was wearing space diapers -- in NASA speak, Maximum ...

NASA and SpaceX delayed the return of four astronauts from the ISS from Sunday to Monday. The rescheduled flight is much shorter than the initial, planned trip — eight hours instead of 20. This means ...