A simple drawing that tried to bridge the distance between the Earth and the heavens has forever linked the lives of Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon and Petr Ginz, its teen creator who died during ...

Still, there were attempts to bring pencils into space. In 1965, the agency famously ordered 34 specially designed mechanical pencils in hopes of finding the perfect writing tool for astronauts.

'It's an early idea for the STS-41D patch that Dad and the crew asked me to draw.' A son's 40-year-old sketch for his astronaut dad's mission patch has been made into a new embroidered emblem to ...