O-ring erosion on Discovery would have disastrous effects a year later It has been 40 years since NASA launched the first ...

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.

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

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 ...

On January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after lift off, killing the seven crew members on board. The space shuttle disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean, just off the coast ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The world was shocked and saddened 39 years ago after the Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy. The crewed shuttle mission for NASA ended moments after the launch with a terrible mid-air explosion on Jan.