The 40th anniversary of the Challenger disaster cast a shadow over NASA's annual Day of Remembrance event inside the Space ...

Marking four decades since the explosion of the Challenger claimed the lives of its seven-member crew, we recap the incident, ...

Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NASA gets ready for its first crewed lunar mission since Apollo: Artemis II.

Next month, four astronauts are expected to board a space capsule called Orion, blast off on a rocket known as the Space Launch System, and exit low-Earth orbit for the first time since 1972, en route ...

On Feb. 1, 2003, NASA was once again dealing with tragedy when Space Shuttle Columbia and her crew of seven astronauts were lost after the shuttle broke apart during reentry.

Seven American spacefarers were killed in a tragic event 40 years ago today that has become widely known as the Challenger disaster.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

NASA is preparing to enter a new era of Moon and Mars exploration. Before it does, the agency is overdue for some remodeling of its facilities. Two historic test stands at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This collection contains 17 digital images showing the disintegration of the Space Shuttle Columbia upon its reentry on February 1, 2003. These ...