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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Ekaterinburg’s aviation and military museum complex is preparing to undertake restoration of an orbiter from the Soviet Union’s Buran space shuttle programme, six months after the vehicle’s ...

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 ...

help refuel spacecrafts in orbit. Cryogenic propellant is tricky to store but ETA Space believes they have a solution. Last ...

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." ...

William R. Lucas, who directed the Marshall Space Flight Center from a crucial time of expansion into one of its darkest hours, died Feb. 10, 2025, at his home in Huntsville. He was 102.

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 ...

Tuesday marks the 39th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy.The shuttle exploded 73 seconds after takeoff on Jan. 28, 1986.New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe was one of the ...

Credit: Newscom/Alamy Live News The U.S. Space Force (USSF) has for the first time deployed a payload on a Japanese satellite. A USSF space domain-awareness payload was put into space on Japan's ...