When a spacecraft comes home without people on board, it is not a cinematic failure but a carefully choreographed engineering ...
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 ...
Former astronaut and professor Terry Hart is opening up 40 years later about the friends and colleagues he lost on board the ...
NASA's Space Shuttle Program, which ran from 1981 to 2011, was a complex and ambitious project that pushed the boundaries of ...
NASA astronaut Suni Williams has retired after 27 years of service and a career defined by endurance, leadership, and firsts in space. She spent 608 days in orbit, completed nine spacewalks, and twice ...
Christa McAuliffe trained to be the first teacher in space, preparing to turn a shuttle cabin into the most-watched classroom in America. Forty years after she and six crewmates died when Challenger ...
In the 1990s, NASA and Lockheed Martin set out to replace the Space Shuttle with a fully reusable spaceplane that promised radically cheaper access to orbit. This video explores the bold technology ...