Explore the intricate process of launching the Space Shuttle from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

When a spacecraft comes home without people on board, it is not a cinematic failure but a carefully choreographed engineering ...

Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff while carrying seven people, including "Teacher in Space" participant Christa McAuliffe. Nobody survived the launch on Jan. 28, 1986 from NASA's Kennedy ...

“Then the explosion, a vivid memory I will never forget. A lot of us pulled off onto the berm and listened intently to the ...

Ahead of the launch of Artemis II, the first crewed mission to the moon in more than 50 years, astronauts share the movies ...

Picture a spacecraft returning to Earth after a long journey. The vehicle slams into the planet's atmosphere at roughly ...

NASA’s Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off 40 years ago with an unusual crew. In addition to six astronauts, the mission took ...

Just one day before the Challenger space shuttle exploded over a minute after lift off on Jan. 28, 1986, Terry Hart received phone calls from NASA astronauts Dick Scobee and Mike Smith, who did not ...

Onizuka began his active duty Air Force career in the early 1970s as an aerospace flight test engineer at the Sacramento Air ...

NASA's Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off 40 years ago with six astronauts and a teacher on board. That legacy is being ...

The thing is, NASA and the Smithsonian are right to fight back, and Jared Isaacman has their back. "My job now is to make sure we can undertake such a transportation within the budget dollars we have ...

Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades ...