A small uncrewed spacecraft is buzzing the moon, with under two weeks remaining before its bold attempt to land on the lunar ...

The SpainSat NG-1 satellite launched right on time at 8:34 p.m. from Kennedy Space Center's Pad 39A ... stage and satellite safely reached Earth orbit. The Falcon 9 first-stage booster used ...

On that chilly January day in 1986, students and teachers across the nation waited in awe and wonder, primed to watch and learn from the first teacher in space ... “shuttle repeatedly from Earth ...

I address you here this afternoon at 11:40 a.m. This morning Space program experienced a national tragedy with the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. Approximately a minute, half after ...

White House ‘Gulf of America’ Fight Don’t Let Other Countries Set U.S. Tax Rates Today is the 39th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger’s explosion upon takeoff, on January 28 ...

The temperature was predicted to be a record low for a Space Shuttle launch ... would have been affected in those temperatures. The orbiter and the launch tower were draped in icicles.

The crewed shuttle mission for NASA ended moments after ... set to be one of the first “civilians” in space. A NASA investigation later found that cold weather and faulty O-rings on the ...

and payload specialists Gregory Jarvis and Christa McAuliffe, who was expected to be the first teacher in space. The Space Shuttle Challenger STS-51L mission was expected to deploy a ...

It was the morning of Jan. 28, the day of the space shuttle Challenger disaster ... Solid Rocket Booster diagram side view. Shows positions of tang, clevis and O-rings. Putty lines the joint ...

On this date, Jan. 28, 1986, space shuttle Challenger exploded just 73 seconds after liftoff from Kennedy Space Center, killing all seven crew members. Two O-rings in the right solid rocket ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the date of the Space Shuttle ... vehicle that could “shuttle repeatedly from Earth to orbit and back." ...