The story of the doomed Challenger spacecraft and how it came to its gruesome demise features a tragic sequence of events and heartbreaking final words from those on board. It was 28 January 1986, and ...

If Congress decides to grant Houston a space shuttle, Space Center CEO William Harris says the city is far more ready than it was a decade ago.

Bruce McCandless II. Photo: NASA NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II stepped away from the Space Shuttle Challenger on Feb. 7, 1984, using a jet-powered backpack called the Manned Manoeuvring Unit ...

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

Two Texas senators have introduced legislation that would strip the Smithsonian of the retired space shuttle Discovery and send it to Houston for display. NASA's retired space shuttle Discovery ...

This was the maiden voyage of the space shuttle Challenger. The goal of this mission was to deploy the first Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-1. NASA now uses a whole fleet of these ...

Then, due to the loss of Challenger in January 1986 and the ensuing pause of the space shuttle program, Hubble would wait yet another five years before reaching orbit. Loren J. Shriver ...

all 24,000 pounds of the Hubble Space Telescope were tucked away inside the Discovery space shuttle when it launched into space. Thirty-five years later, NASA says Hubble has proven to have ...

She became a pilot and then the first woman to pilot and command a space shuttle through sheer willpower. Alongside all that was the complex emotional journey for her own family. It was this ...

Hubble maintenance and legacy Throughout her career, de Groh was fortunate enough to have worked in different capacities on all five of the Space Shuttle Hubble Space Telescope service missions.