Forty years ago, on , NASA’s Space Shuttle Columbia, attached to an external tank and twin solid rocket boosters, lifted off ...

Eileen Collins, the first woman to pilot and command a Space Shuttle, has her story told in a documentary, 'Spacewoman'.

Leland Melvin said that flying a space shuttle was significantly less nerve-wracking than being racially profiled by the ...

LENEXA, Kan. (KCTV) - January 28, 1986. The Space Shuttle Challenger explodes 73 seconds after lift-off. School teacher, Christa McAuliffe was one of 7 astronauts on board the shuttle. Schools across ...

Construction on the California Science Center's new Samuel Oschin Air & Space Center, home to the Endeavour shuttle, is complete.

On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart just 73 seconds after liftoff from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, killing all seven astronauts aboard and marking one of the darkest ...

Imagine staring out your window, coffee in hand, only to witness a towering space shuttle slowly but surely rolling down your ...

Apple hardware has gone into orbit, starting with shuttle-era experiments, through a long exclusion, and now a controlled ...

From Florida's Kennedy Space Center to Space Center Houston, the best space museums in the U.S. get you up close to rockets, ...

STS-3 was launched from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center on March 22nd 1982. BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – Space Shuttle Columbia lifted off for the third shuttle test flight on March 22 in 1982 for ...