NASA's space shuttle Endeavor touched down safely for the final time at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida after spending ...

The National Air and Space Museum will host its annual “Sally’s Night” on June 21, 2025, from 6 to 11 p.m., celebrating Sally ...

Conquering the galaxy has not seemed more imperative since the 1960s, when the contest between the USA and USSR to put the ...

Jason Aldean has several songs that announce his presence with a snarl. "Tattoos on This Town" and "We Back" do it. So does ...

The Challenger lifts off Jan. 28, 1986, at Kennedy Space Center in Florida ... Thompson said she stayed inside, watching it all on television. As soon as the shuttle’s vapor trails split ...

It was so cold that morning that Thompson said she stayed inside ... lifted off from the space center. Seventeen years after the Challenger disaster, another shuttle and its crew were lost ...

Space Shuttle Challenger was about to lift off on its tenth flight. That level of cold affected the rubber O-rings that sealed the fuel inside the booster rockets. There was no data on how that ...

“It’s the Space Shuttle Challenger, Bob,” he said ... memorial for the astronauts had been organized. It was crowded inside. Students were sitting quietly, listening to anyone who ...

The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster occurred on January ... “So there’s the inside story of a handful of rocket engineers … who tried to stop the launch happening, of what led them to ...

A new book details the errors that went into the disaster that doomed the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1986 ... pulling the fuselage asunder from the inside,” writes Higginbotham.

On February 7, 1984, astronaut Bruce McCandless ventured out into space and away from shuttle Challenger ... gulf separating him from Challenger steadily expanded. Inside his suit, it became ...