As it flew up toward the International Space Station last summer, the Starliner spacecraft lost four thrusters. A NASA ...

which led all the space shuttle flights in the program's history from the 1980s to 2010. Four shuttles have been retired and one was scheduled to be displayed at Johnson Space Center. But that ...

It was 28 January 1986, and the Space Shuttle Challenger was gearing up for take off ... NASA has since shared the transcript of the flight, and just seven seconds in, Smith can be heard saying: “Go, ...

Mark Kelly of Arizona, also served as a NASA astronaut on short shuttle flights. Russian cosmonaut Valery Polyakov spent 14 ½ months aboard the Mir space station in the mid-1990s. He volunteered ...

As a safety measure, NASA suspended its space shuttle flights. Eventually, after more than five months in space, the three astronauts landed back on Earth in a Russian capsule in May 2003.