The 17th launch of the space shuttle took place 40 years ago today, kicking off the Spacelab 3 mission (STS-51B). [...] ...

A camera affixed to the International Space Station recently spotted some curious symbols amid a barren desert landscape. "This caught our attention," Charles Black, the founder of the Earth and ...

Their space shuttle was a Hollywood creation, made originally for the film Space Cowboy and the Russian pilot Yevgeny was an English actor who studied modern languages at Oxford. After boarding a ...

The space shuttle Discovery launches from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, heading through Atlantic skies toward its 51-D mission. The seven-member crew lifted off at 8:59 a.m. ET, April 12, ...

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space shuttle New Shepard became a trailblazer when it became the first to carry a celebrity into space. It led an all-female crew including pop singer Katy Perry, television ...

It is named in honor of Dr. Ronald E. McNair, a pioneering African-American astronaut who died in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. Dr. McNair came from a low-income background but went on ...

The Astronauts Memorial Foundation is a nonprofit founded after the NASA Space Shuttle Challenger accident. The organization has a memorial wall at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida ...

OREGON, Ohio — The Challenger Learning Center of Lake Erie West's Heather Townley said she was happy to hear six women were headed into space for a historic event during Monday's Blue Origin ...

Katy Perry and her all-female crew shot “across the sky” like a firework and blasted off into space on a Blue Origin rocket. Former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, bioastronautics research ...

They were among the six women who made a 10-minute trip on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket, as the first all-female space crew in more than 60 years. transcript The first all-female space crew ...

few know that he played a significant role in the creation of the NASA Space Shuttle Challenger — and its aftermath. After he graduated from Cornell with a mechanical engineering degree ...