On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded after it was launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida in just 73 seconds which claimed the lives of seven astronauts.

For millions, it was an event that would be seared into their memories for the rest of their lives – on par with the Kennedy ...

It's been 39 years since the Challenger space shuttle, carrying seven people, took off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center, ...

Tal Ramon, son of Ilan Ramon who died on board Space Shuttle Columbia, speaks during a ceremony ... and how these moments have defined eras to human spaceflight and have also permanently altered ...

The year 2025 puts us one quarter of the way through the 21st century. We'll spend the year looking back at some of the amazing advances we've experienced. In this episode: privatized space travel.

Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot. The insulting phrase for ...

On April 12, 1981, NASA's inaugural space shuttle flight launched astronauts John Young and Bob Crippen aboard Columbia ... becoming the first human satellites to orbit Earth.

It will revolutionize transportation into near space, by routinizing it,” Nixon said. It would be more than a decade before the first shuttle, Columbia, launched from the Space Coast.

The Space Coast is set ... when Vulcan will launch Tenacity remains up in the air. The Dream Chaser is a cargo version of what was originally pitched to be a human-rated spacecraft and the company ...

It’s akin to riding an open-topped shuttle around every ... and all manner of other human diseases to all corners of various galaxies. Thankfully, the space program to which the Kerbals ...

NASA will observe its annual Day of Remembrance on Thursday, Jan. 23, honoring the members of the NASA family who lost their ...