A collection of more than 50 pieces of memorabilia previously owned by Sally Ride, the first American woman to reach space, ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the date of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. It occurred Feb. 1, 2003. For millions of Americans, it was an event that ...

The Space Shuttle Challenger STS-51L mission was expected to deploy a communications satellite and study Halley’s Comet. McAuliffe was part of the Teacher in Space Project, which was meant to ...

Moving Discovery was the goal of legislation brought earlier this year by Texas Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, ...

NASA astronaut Sally Ride became America's first woman in space after she and four colleagues blasted off on the space shuttle Challenger for the STS-7 mission. The astronauts spent 6 days in space ...

On Jan. 28, 1986, a family from Detroit watches the Challenger from Cocoa Beach, Fla., cheering and clapping, photographing themselves with the shuttle in the background, not knowing that the ...

Jan. 28, 1986, was the day NASA’s carefully cultivated image literally blew up at 46,000 feet.

A political effort to relocate the space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian to Space Center Houston has been merged with ...

Space Shuttle Challenger was about to lift off on its tenth flight. That level of cold affected the rubber O-rings that sealed the fuel inside the booster rockets.

BBC World Service and BBC Sounds have announced their multi-award winning podcast 13 Minutes To The Moon is to return with a ...

There are about three Space Shuttle orbiters currently in operation - Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour, which are all ...