It’s been 40 years since the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. It was a day the nation slowly realized something had ...
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In honor of the launch of the last space shuttle mission today, the Atlantic has a great photographic history of the program, from the initial designs through two tragedies to recent work on the ...
On Jan. 16, 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia launched on its 28th mission, STS-107. NASA had five additional space shuttle ...
In 1986, the Challenger space shuttle broke apart, claiming the lives of seven crew members. Among them was Concord High ...
When Space Shuttle Discovery touched down for the last time at Kennedy Space Center Runway 15 on March 9, 2011, it brought to an end a 27-year career of spaceflight. Discovery flew to space 39 times, ...
Tucked inside President Donald Trump's flagship tax and spending bill last month was a little-noticed provision to relocate the iconic space shuttle Discovery from a museum outside Washington to ...
NASA has demolished the Propulsion and Structural Test Facility and Dynamic Test Stand in Huntsville to modernize the ...