On January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after lift off, killing the seven crew members on board.

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

Atlantis' journey capped off the shuttle era, following Discovery’s final flight in February and Endeavour's in May. After the last missions, NASA's fleet of three orbiters was retired to ...

It has been 40 years since NASA launched the first dedicated Department of Defense ... and public coverage of the expedition soon ceased after the successful lift-off. Shuttle Columbia's near-miss: ...

To be honest, I didn’t know how I’d pull it off, but I’ve always believed in the power of picking up the phone and asking. So, I called NASA ... watching the shuttle lift off.

Endeavour, the fifth and final space shuttle was created after the space shuttle program's greatest tragedy. Congress authorized NASA to replace the Space Shuttle Challenger, which was lost ...

After the space agency canceled its VIPER rover, an empty space was available on a private spacecraft that will still head to ...

NASA should soon announce a new plan for the return of two of its astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, to Earth as ...

Endeavor soared around the planet on its way to the shuttle program's penultimate mission to the Russian Mir Space Station. On that mission, Andy Thomas replaced David Wolf as the resident NASA ...

According to Nasa, at the agency’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, the mission will lift off on a SpaceX’s Falcon 8 rocket from Launch Complex 39A. Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander will spend ...

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