Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 28th January 1986: An abstract smoke pattern after the space shuttle Challenger explosion, Kennedy Space Center, Florida.Dave ...

The crew of the final NASA Space Shuttle mission, STS-135, reunited at Kennedy Space Center to mark the 15th anniversary of their flight. Astronauts reflected on the nearly flawless performance of ...

The Space Shuttle Endeavour, which took astronauts into orbit 25 times, went on display at the California Science Center on its final mission Wednesday. The orbiter, built to replace the ill-fated ...

The relatives of the seven astronauts who died on space shuttle Columbia say the exploration of space by astronauts “must go on”. The joint statement from the mourning families released on Monday ...

(Reuters) - U.S. space agency NASA is ending its shuttle program this summer after two more missions. Shuttle Endeavour is due to launch on Friday on a mission to deliver a high-profile physics ...

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NASA hauled the space shuttle Atlantis to its seaside launch pad on Thursday, hopeful that a trio of storms churning over the Atlantic Ocean will steer clear of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Flying either the rocket-powered X-15 or Space Shuttle would already be pretty impressive, but one man actually flew both. This is his story.

On the morning of January 28, 1986, seven crew members were killed when the space shuttle Challenger broke apart a little over a minute after it launched. Those killed included five NASA astronauts, ...