At least two Challenger astronauts are believed to have survived the shuttle's explosion, enduring a harrowing 2-minute, 45-second descent before impact ...

Few who witnessed NASA's Challenger Space Shuttle launch will ever forget the moment it broke apart just 73 seconds after liftoff, claiming the lives of all seven crew members. A minor design flaw in ...

The Artemis II heat shield, NASA agrees, is flawed. The heat shield is the critical layer at the bottom of a spacecraft that protects it — and the astronauts inside — from searing temperatures upon ...

NASA is preparing to launch four astronauts on a lunar fly-around on Wednesday in humanity's first flight to the moon since 1972. As anticipation mounts, some Americans are feeling anxious due to the ...

On April 7, 1983, astronauts took the first spacewalk outside of a space shuttle during mission STS-6. This was the maiden voyage of the space shuttle Challenger. The goal of this mission was to ...

As a small boy, I had no idea about the scientific genius and innovation that went into making the Moon landing a success ...

NASA. On February 7, 1984, Bruce McCandless II slipped out of space shuttle Challenger and became something no human had ever ...

The 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explosion strengthened Nancy Currie-Gregg's resolve to become an astronaut. Currie-Gregg was selected as an astronaut in 1990 and completed four space missions before ...

The Columbus Dispatch is highlighting Ohio's role in space exploration with a yearlong project. Ohio is the birthplace of 25 astronauts, including Neil Armstrong and Judith Resnik. Artemis II is a ...

Apollo astronaut Harrison “Jack” Schmitt knows what the Artemis II crew was feeling when it rocketed into space this month ...

As the four Artemis II astronauts closed in on the moon, they took time to send Easter greetings to Earth and had their own version of an egg hunt. Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and ...

Now that’s a space-time continuum. The Artemis II crew has been tracking their time away in high style with analog-digital Omega wristwatches designed specifically for space travel — but one of the ...