The Space Shuttle was a groundbreaking achievement in aerospace engineering—combining the power of a rocket with the ...

R: The Shuttle Orbiter Enterprise inside of Marshall Space Flight Center's Dynamic Test Stand for Mated Vertical Ground Vibration tests (MVGVT). Images: NASA These are the voyages of the space ...

The milestones, heartbreaks, and discoveries that shaped NASA's 30-year shuttle program. NASA's storied space shuttle program experienced extraordinary triumphs and heartbreaking tragedies during ...

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 39th anniversary of Space Shuttle Challenger explosion, which took lives of seven crew members, including Ronald ...

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

Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot. The insulting phrase for ...

Sierra Space officials announced the autonomous spacecraft successfully completed and passed testing milestones in ...

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 image encompasses the epic Pillars of Creation, a famous cosmic formation that has enchanted Earthlings ... 1999 with an assist from the space shuttle Columbia. The telescope has since made ...