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 ...

it is with deep, heartfelt sorrow. I address you here this afternoon at 11:40 a.m. This morning Space program experienced a national tragedy with the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.

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 ...

Sierra Space's "mini shuttle" Dream Chaser space plane may make its maiden flight in May after launching atop a rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Pre-flight testing continues at NASA ...

Tuesday marks the 39th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy.The shuttle exploded 73 seconds after takeoff on Jan. 28, 1986.New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe was one of the ...

On this date, Jan. 5, 1970, President Richard Nixon officially announced his direction to NASA to build the space shuttle program. “I have decided today that the United States should proceed at ...

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 ...

Endeavour, the fifth and final space shuttle was created after the space shuttle program's greatest tragedy. Congress authorized NASA to replace the Space Shuttle Challenger, which was lost ...

This is the eighth space walk of Suni Williams' career One of the two astronauts stranded at the International Space Station (ISS) has taken their first space walk since arriving at the station ...

It was the morning of Jan. 28, the day of the space shuttle Challenger disaster. Icicles formed on the launch pad and service tower in the evening and early morning hours on January 28 ...

Billionaire Elon Musk vowed Tuesday to bring home the two astronauts who have been stuck in space for about eight months “as soon as possible” – and blasted the Biden White House for not ...

The founder of SpaceX said President Trump had asked his company to return two astronauts aboard the space station to Earth “as soon as possible.” NASA said it would do that “as soon as ...