Sometimes when we reach for the stars, we fall short ... Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident indicated the crew probably survived the fuel tank blast but ultimately died nearly ...

For millions, it was an event that would be seared into their memories for the rest of their lives – on par with the Kennedy assassination and 9/11.

On this date, Jan. 28, 1986, space shuttle Challenger exploded just 73 ... booster and essentially burned a hole in the external fuel tank, basically making the tank and its liquid fuel contents ...

Hot gases burned through and caused an explosion of the external fuel tank ... NASA relaunched shuttle flights on Sept. 29, 1988, when Discovery lifted off from the space center.

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the date of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster ... an explosion of the external fuel tank. The Rogers Commission, an ...

A chart plotting the price of liquified propane, or LP gas, as it is commonly known, shows a fairly level line tracking ...

Everything ends. No matter how much you personally may like something—a restaurant, a TV show, a band, some other popular entertainment property—no matter how much you may want to keep it going into ...

Credit: Blue Origin Here's a round-up of space missions and cosmic ... few hours into the flight because of a fuel leak. The company will try again this fall with its Griffin lander.

Militaries are hauling many thousand pounds of cargo and thousands of soldiers each year, so they need massive cargo ...

On January 28, 1986, the NASA shuttle orbiter mission STS-51-L and the tenth flight of Space Shuttle Challenger ... attachment hardware and external fuel tank. This led to the separation of ...

The man who led a NASA facility that shouldered much of the blame for the 1986 space shuttle Challenger explosion has died ...

The crewed shuttle mission for NASA ended moments after ... set to be one of the first “civilians” in space. A NASA investigation later found that cold weather and faulty O-rings on the ...