On April 14, 1981, the first space shuttle mission returned to Earth after a two-day flight in space. The space shuttle ...

His latest is Into the Black: The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia and the Men Who Flew Her. White’s book provides a detailed account of STS-1 ...

She became a pilot and then the first woman to pilot and command a space shuttle through ... the return-to-flight after NASA lost the whole crew in the Columbia accident. Her being a woman is ...

Space shuttle Columbia disintegrated in flames over Texas minutes before it was to land in Florida. TV footage showed what appeared to be falling debris, as Nasa declared an emergency and warned ...

During her time working at NASA in the 1990s, Collins broke many glass ceilings, which culminated in four dramatic and dangerous space shuttle ... flight after NASA lost the whole crew in the ...

A bitcoin investor who bought a SpaceX flight for himself ... Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, and other pioneering cosmonauts came almost as close, as did NASA shuttle astronauts in 1990.

The first of those missions, Artemis II is scheduled for launch next year, and would take four astronauts on a flight around ... senator who flew on the space shuttle Columbia in 1986.

"Flight rate will grow exponentially ... the fact that each has surpassed the 1,000-hours in space mark during Space Shuttle Columbia... American NASA Jeffrey A Hoffman (left) and Costa Rican ...

The movements were observed using a special motion-picture camera throughout the flight. Upon reentry on March 30, 1982, the queen bees and their drones were found dead, while the centipedes were ...

The placement of Discovery has been a sensitive topic since the space shuttle was officially moved to the museum in 2012. It flew its final flight aboard a Boeing 747 to Dulles International Airport.