astronaut

A new statue at Bradley University honors the first African American man to become an astronaut.

The Peoria Riverfront Museum has a new exhibit filling the former lobby and waiting area of the Dome Planetarium.

NASA Astronaut Mike Hopkins delivered the commencement address on Saturday at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Hopkins himself graduated…

Retired astronaut Jim Lovell was in Chicago today, recreating Apollo 8's famous Christmas Eve broadcast from 1968. As Brian Mackey reports, the original…

A NASA astronaut who graduated from the University of Illinois spoke to U of I students Tuesday from orbit. IPR’s Sean Powers reports: Students wait in a…