Thanks to his love for flight and contributions to NASA, John Denver was nearly selected to board the infamous Challenger ...

Thirty years ago this weekend, after a two and a half year stand down and an extremely difficult external- and self-examination of a lack of safety within the program, NASA succeeded in returning ...

It has been 40 years since NASA launched the first dedicated Department of Defense Space Shuttle mission ... that would doom Challenger a year later.… The five crew members launched on the ...

On 28 January 1986, Challenger was set to carry the first American civilian into space. Christa McAuliffe was killed along with another six NASA crew members when the shuttle broke up 73 seconds ...

The 17th launch of the space shuttle took place 40 years ago today, kicking off the Spacelab 3 mission (STS-51B). [...] ...