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

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 ...

Endeavour, the fifth and final space shuttle was created after the space ... On Dec. 6, just two days after launch, the astronauts mated Zarya with Unity, a connecting module built in the United ...

I address you here this afternoon at 11:40 a.m. This morning Space program experienced ... explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. Approximately a minute, half after launch from here at the ...

It was the second, the Columbia, that had the honor of being the first space shuttle to launch into orbit. It blasted off on April 12, 1981, exactly two decades after Yuri Gagarin became the first ...