The proposal to uproot Space Shuttle Discovery from its museum home and ship it to Texas ignited a rare mix of outrage among ...

Seven astronauts lost their lives during the Challenger space shuttle disaster on Jan. 28, 1986. Four decades later, human ...

Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after lift-off. A small team of engineers tried to prevent ...

Families of the astronauts lost in the space shuttle Challenger accident are marking that tragic day 40 years ago ...

On Feb. 1, 2003, NASA was once again dealing with tragedy when Space Shuttle Columbia and her crew of seven astronauts were lost after the shuttle broke apart during reentry.

On Jan. 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after takeoff. All seven crewmembers on board were killed.

Even in retirement, the space shuttle Discovery exudes power, seen across a hangar crowded with planes and jets at its museum home in Chantilly, Va. Charred and worn from its record 39 missions to ...

Before astronauts ever orbit Earth, Building 9 at the Johnson Space Center is a required stop. "What we're standing in right now is a module about the diameter of a school bus, maybe a Greyhound bus,” ...

It’s been 40 years since the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. It was a day the nation slowly realized something had ...

For the millions of people across the country and around the world that watched the tragic loss of Challenger live, the ...

This story was updated at 9:49 a.m. EDT. The new spaceship being built by private aerospace firm Sierra Nevada Corp. may look like a miniature space shuttle, but while the design takes cues from the ...

NASA's Space Shuttle Program, which ran from 1981 to 2011, was a complex and ambitious project that pushed the boundaries of ...