Andrew 'Andy' Freed is most well-known for being a Purdue professor, teaching notable classes taken by a large majority of ...

The Hubble Space Telescope, a NASA and ESA project, was launched on April 24, 1990, aboard Space Shuttle Discovery. The ...

The term “space age” has become shorthand for a certain aesthetic that covers form, materials and a cutting-edge sensibility.

With Katy Perry’s space odyssey this week and Donald Trump’s expressed plan to plant the American flag on Mars, we look at 12 ...

NASA's Apollo 13 mission, where disaster struck and an oxygen tank exploded, we take a look at some of the most harrowing space-related accidents ...

Then, one technician reset an improperly configured system, and disaster struck ... In January 1986, the crew of the Challenger space shuttle took off from the launch pad on their STS-51L mission ...

"The 1986 Challenger disaster — in which seven crew members were killed when their Space Shuttle broke apart shortly after ...

it also tells the story of the Rogers Commission that investigated the Challenger disaster that Ride took part in. Growing up in Florida, Meredith Bagby was obsessed with space and the shuttle ...

Space Shuttle Challenger — STS-51L Mission ... NASA had put a moratorium on servicing commercial payloads after the Challenger disaster. This created a vacuum in the commercial spaceflight ...

PHOENIX--When the shuttle Challenger blew up, the explosion lit a fuse in Roger Boisjoly's conscience. A structural engineer for Morton Thiokol Inc., the firm that later bore blame for the disaster ..