On Sept. 19, 1996, the Space Shuttle Atlantis rendezvoused with Russia's Mir space station to deliver supplies and equipment.

On Sept. 26, 2025, one person was killed and several injured in an early morning 4-vehicle traffic crash near Kennedy Space ...

Sept. 7, 1925: Yesterday was the hottest day of the summer. The maximum temperature, according to statistics compiled by Professor H.N. Pearce, official weather observer for this district, was 102 ...

From historic eclipses to pioneering rocket launches, September 16 holds remarkable space events. Discover the surprising ...

Built to rival NASA’s shuttle, the Buran flew just once—unmanned, flawless, and then never again. This is the story behind ...

Receiving presidential approval in 1972, the program carried out missions from 1981 to 2011, when Atlantis was the last shuttle to land at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. For three decades, ...

It’s not often someone is drafted into the NFL and makes a journey to the International Space Station, but Leland Melvin has done both. Melvin is an engineer and former NASA astronaut who participated ...

On Sept. 26, 1960, the first televised presidential debate aired from a Chicago TV studio. It featured candidates John F.

Since 1994, UC San Diego’s Moores Cancer Center in La Jolla has helped put on a fundraising event to support cancer research. This year, it is expanding the event to two days for the first time and ...

The debut mission of Northrop Grumman's new jumbo cargo spacecraft didn't go off without a hitch. The company's first "Cygnus ...

Arizona-based Katalyst Space Technologies has scored a contract to raise the altitude of NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift ...