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

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.

Discovery first flew in August 1984, completed 39 trips into space, and remains NASA's oldest surviving shuttle. Most famously, it delivered the Hubble telescope into space and returned Mercury ...

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 ...

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

The milestones, heartbreaks, and discoveries that shaped NASA's 30-year shuttle program. NASA's storied space shuttle ... journey capped off the shuttle era, following Discovery’s final flight ...

SpaceX and NASA on Sunday successfully launched a crew of Russian and American astronauts towards the International Space Station (ISS ... leave and “splash down off the coast of Florida ...

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.

Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour. An earlier shuttle, Enterprise, was used for early testing and then disassembled. Icons of space flight they undoubtedly are, but the shuttle programme has been ...

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.