During the Cold War, the Soviet Union developed the Buran space shuttle, a massive 105 ton spacecraft designed to rival and ...
The NASA Space Shuttle program began as Space Shuttle Columbia took its maiden voyage. This was the world’s first reusable spacecraft; it lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center. The shuttle lasted ...
Payload specialists in training for STS-51L take a break in shuttle emergency egress training in 1986. Left to right: Gregory Jarvis, Christa McAuliffe and Barbara Morgan. McAuliffe was selected as ...
NASA space shuttle astronauts Tom Akers and Joe Tanner, who flew into orbit four times each, will be inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame.
Forty years ago, the NASA space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven crew members. Among the seven crew members were five NASA astronauts, as well as a payload ...
The two solid rocket boosters flew in different directions as the external fuel tank became a fireball.(AP: Bruce Weaver / File) Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after ...
Space Shuttle Discovery on display at the Smithsonian. NASA is beginning the process of potentially relocating Space Shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian in Virginia to Houston. The federal space ...