Former astronaut and professor Terry Hart is opening up 40 years later about the friends and colleagues he lost on board the ...
The space shuttle Challenger explosion was a defining moment of the 1980s. Whether you were watching on TV or in person, ...
Akron schoolgirl, a whiz in math and science, grew up to become a brilliant engineer, a pioneer astronaut and the second ...
NASA's space shuttle Challenger completed 10 missions before it broke apart during a launch in 1986, killing seven astronauts ...
Dr. Ronald McNair, born in Lake City and the second African American man in space, was honored with the title of "Palmetto ...
New Hampshire school teacher Christa McAuliffe died on January 28, 1986 when the space shuttle Challenger exploded.
NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless, the first person to fly freely and untethered in space, has died. He was 80. He was famously photographed in 1984 flying with a hefty spacewalker's jetpack, alone in ...
Michael Collins, an astronaut who in 1969 was a part of the mission that brought humans to the moon for the first time has died, according to a statement from his family. He was 90. According to the ...
Steve Hawley, who flew five Space Shuttle missions, and Krista Schaffer, a first-grade teacher at Christa McAuliffe ...