Columbia mission commander Rick Husband is most often spoken of in the context of his death alongside his fellow astronauts ...

Though NASA has a robust culture of safety, tragedy has occasionally struck. Three astronauts were killed during training for ...

A passenger in a stolen car died, and the 74-year-old driver of an airport shuttle was critically injured after a crash Thursday morning on Bartram Avenue, not far from Philadelphia International ...

HOUSTON -- NASA will observe a solemn anniversary today. The Challenger accident happened 30 years ago today. NASA is set to honor the victims of that accident across multiple states today. It is hard ...

On January 28th, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off from Florida, carrying seven astronauts. Just over a minute later, it exploded in a fireball, shocking the world. This documentary ...

The crash happened Sunday night near Washington and 18th streets in Phoenix and led to a power outage on the light rail.

NASA officials said Monday they might go ahead with Tuesday's launch of the space shuttle Discovery even if a fuel sensor problem recurs that scrubbed the flight nearly two weeks ago. Discovery is set ...

Less than one year after the Columbia Space Shuttle accident on 1 February 2003, President George W. Bush announced at NASA Headquarters that the Agency would embark on a new Vision for Space ...

It was the second fatal space shuttle mission following the Challenger disaster in 1986. Sacagawea was an interpreter and guide for explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark as they ventured in ...