Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 7:43 p.m. EDT Sunday to deliver the final set of power-generating solar array wings and a new ...

It's been 39 years since the Challenger space shuttle, carrying seven people, took off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center, exploding in mere minutes.

The mid-1980s may feel distant to today’s Northwestern students. But to me, a 22-year-old senior at the Medill School of ...

For millions, it was an event that would be seared into their memories for the rest of their lives – on par with the Kennedy ...

Today marks the 39th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster (Mission STS-51-L), when the shuttle's seven astronauts were killed by an explosion.

Ice development is considered a debris hazard since it can break off and damage ... States would return to space flight with five crew members aboard the space shuttle Discovery.

A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...

Launch of space shuttle Discovery on mission STS-63. STS-63 Commander James Wetherbee on Discovery's flight deck. STS-63 Pilot Eileen Collins on Discovery's flight deck. On Feb. 3, Discovery and its ...

Five hundred years after the Spanish explorers, billionaires' dreams of new riches and discovery launched from near Canaveral ...

Musk has repeatedly used X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter that he purchased two years ago for $44 billion, to blast the ... had on (NASA’s) space shuttle, although they ...