When a spacecraft comes home without people on board, it is not a cinematic failure but a carefully choreographed engineering ...

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

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — After 30 years of spaceflight, NASA's iconic space shuttles will fly no more. The space agency's storied shuttle program ended today (July 21) when the shuttle Atlantis soared ...

Seven American spacefarers were killed in a tragic event 40 years ago today that has become widely known as the Challenger disaster.

NASA's space shuttle Challenger completed 10 missions before it broke apart during a launch in 1986, killing seven astronauts ...

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

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

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- Space shuttle Endeavour and its seven astronauts safely returned to Earth on Sunday, taking a detour to sunny California after storms hit the main landing strip in ...

The event will honor astronaut Christa McAuliffe, the first teacher selected to fly to space ...

On January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after liftoff, killing the seven crew members on board The ...