The X-38—had it gone operational—would not have been the first reusable spacecraft. But it helped lay the groundwork for ...

The Space Shuttle was a groundbreaking achievement in aerospace engineering—combining the power of a rocket with the ...

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 ... at some temperature. And was there some ...

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 ...

Read full article: INTERACTIVE: The NASA astronauts and employees who died in service to U.S. space exploration January 28th is a Day of Remembrance honoring the lives of the crew and teacher ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the date of the Space ... shuttle and its crew were lost in the skies above America: The shuttle Columbia broke apart upon ...

The temperature was predicted to be a record low for a Space Shuttle launch. 9:38 a.m. was the launch time and the temperature then was 26 degrees. Space Shuttle Challenger was about to lift off ...

Students gathered around model space shuttles ... another shuttle and its crew were lost in the skies above America: The shuttle Columbia broke apart upon reentry on Feb. 1, 2003, killing all ...

Space debris from rocket bodies orbiting Earth could pose an increased threat of striking aircraft as it falls from space, ...

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 ...

It was the morning of Jan. 28, the day of the space shuttle Challenger disaster ... Records later show the temperature near the right SRB that failed was actually closer to 28 degrees due to ...