Here’s a look at space accidents that have affected astronauts or other staff related to spaceflight. Accidents that involved unmanned spacecraft are not included. Timeline October 24, 1960 – The ...

It would take two years of investigations and modifications before a NASA space shuttle flew into ... Atlantis' journey capped off the shuttle era, following Discovery’s final flight in February ...

Kraft recalls laying bare the budget jeopardy faced by the shuttle. “We were totally incapable of meeting any sort of flight ...

These are the voyages of the space shuttle Enterprise, boldly renamed by former President Gerald Ford after a massive ...

On this date, Jan. 16, 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia launched on its ill-fated flight on the STS-107 mission. During liftoff, ...

The US Space Shuttle program is dead and buried. The orbiters can now be found in their permanent homes in the Air and Space Museum, Kennedy Space Center, and the California Science Center.

If you're remembering back to NASA's legacy Space Shuttle, which launched from 1981 to 2011, that was a smaller rocket. It's dwarfed by these newcomers. According to NASA, it stood at only 184 ...

Nearly four decades later, a new documentary focuses on how she still inspires others and less on her fate aboard the space shuttle Challenger. With a poster of Christa McAuliffe, NASA's first ...