But just 73 seconds after blast-off, the shuttle burst into flames, leaving a cloud of smoke in the sky before it plummeted ...

After Blue Origin's latest New Shepard launch that featured an all-women celebrity crew, many are wondering, are they now 'astronauts' too?

It was announced that the Twilight actress would be playing astronaut Sally Ride in a new limited TV series called The Challenger, based on the 2022 Meredith Bagby book, The New Guys: The Historic ...

For a brief period in the 1980s, astronauts went untethered outside their space capsule, flying with jet packs. The photos ...

Jemison was part of the first group of astronauts chosen after the Challenger accident in 1987. During her eight-day mission on Endeavour in 1992, she became the first woman of color to travel to ...

One moment occurred in 1984 when NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II became the first human to spacewalk or float free from any earthly anchor when he stepped out of the space shuttle Challenger and ...

Challenger exploded seconds after launch in ... There was no clear vision of what would come next, and by 2013, American astronauts were forced to ride Russian rockets into space at the cost ...

The trailblazing astronaut ended her day as the guest of ... soaring aboard the shuttle Challenger and inspiring generations to reach for the stars.Two months after her trip, the California ...