Jan. 28, 1986, 7 spacefarers were killed when shuttle Challenger exploded midair after launching from Kennedy Space Center in ...
The program featured Capt. Robert “Hoot” Gibson, a veteran NASA astronaut who flew five space shuttle missions, including ...
For the millions of people across the country and around the world that watched the tragic loss of Challenger live, the ...
The 40th anniversary of the Challenger disaster cast a shadow over NASA's annual Day of Remembrance event inside the Space ...
A chapter in United States history closed this morning as the Space Shuttle Atlantis touched down for the final time. The return flight was successful, with excellent weather easing the crew's return ...
Walking below the shuttle Atlantis on display, the orbiter's protective heat shield tiles are visible, dinged and scratched from traveling through Earth's atmosphere. A slide in the Space Shuttle ...
NASA observed its annual Day of Remembrance Thursday to commemorate the astronauts killed in the Apollo 1 and space shuttle ...
A foam strike 82 seconds after launch set Columbia on a fatal course, but a 2003 investigation explored a last-minute ...